The old cry of “ritual murder” is again echoed by the official newspaper of the Christian Socialist Party, in Kovno. A twelve year old Christian girl has disappeared, in Kovno, and the paper has taken advantage of that fact together with the approaching Jewish holidays to make the traditional charge.
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