FOLLOWING ANTI-SEMITIC RIOTS IN BEUTHEN, ON THE POLISH BORDER, LAST TUESDAY, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HERE ISSUED A COMMUNIQUE WARNING JEWS OF GERMAN UPPER SILESIA THAT THEY WERE NOW UNDER GERMAN LAW, THE HAVAS NEWS AGENCY REPORTED.
THE OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE STATED THAT RIOTS AGAINST JEWISH COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN BEUTHEN AND ETHIODENBURG BROKE OUT LAST TUESDAY AFTERNOON. THEY WERE ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN PROVOKED BY THE ILLICIT RELATIONS WHICH A JEW, WHO HAS SINCE FLED, HAD HAD WITH A GERMAN CHILD.
THE MOB DASHED INTO THE JEW’S SHOP, ACCORDING TO THE COMMUNIQUE, AND THERE STAGED A VIGOROUS DEMONSTRATION. FOR THIS ACTION PUNISHMENT WILL BE METED OUT TO THE PARTICIPANTS AND ESPECIALLY THE RINGLEADERS, THE COMMUNIQUE STATED, WARNING THAT SUCH DISORDERS WERE IN CONFLICT WITH THE GERMAN PENAL CODE.
HOWEVER, THE COMMUNIQUE ADDED THAT WHILE SUCH ACTION MUST BE AVOIDED AS DETRIMENTAL TO THE GERMAN POPULATION IN UPPER SILESIA, THE SILESIAN GERMANS HAVE BEEN EXEMPLARY IN THEIR CONDUCT TOWARD POLES SINCE THE EXPIRATION ON JULY 15 OF THE POLISH-GERMAN AGREEMENT OF 1922. FURTHERMORE, THE COMMUNIQUE ASSERTED, THIS RESTRAINT HAS BEEN THE MORE COMMENDABLE IN THE FACE OF INTENSIFIED ANTI-GERMAN ACTIVITY IN POLAND.
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