(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Anti-Semitic excesses are reported from Firlitz, a Bessarabian village. The excesses began last Monday during a fair in the village. The local health officer, Zurkan, attacked Jewish passersby with his revolver and urged the assembled peasants to make a pogrom. Many of the Jewish participants in the fair were injured. The gendarmerie intervened and arrested Zurkan.
The Ku Klux Klan is an importation from the United States which Canada can well do without, Justice Logie declared during his address to the jury in the case of William Skelly, convicted on charges of attempting to blow up St. Mary’s Catholic Church, an Associated Press dispatch from Barrie, Ontario declared. Evidence indicated that Skelly made the attempt after drawing lots with other members of the Klan. Two of his superiors. William Butler and Clare Lee were also implicated, and Lee was convicted of being an accessory to the crime.
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