An appeal to aid them in averting the danger from the ritual murder agitation in Memel was directed by the Jews of Memel to the Central Union of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith.
The Central Union has despatched its Koenigsburg representative to Memel.
A despatch from Kovno states that the Kovno authorities have energetically intervened in the ritual murder agitation and that the danger to the Jewish population has been averted.
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