The authorities of Przytyk, scene of Monday’s pogrom in which two Jews and one Christian lost their lives, were warned by Jewish delegations of its imminence, it was disclosed in the Polish Senate today by Senator Rabbi Moses Schorr.
The warnings, however, were dismissed with the statement that the Jews were not in danger, Senator Schorr declared.
Senator Schorr demanded that Jewish security, which is being threatened by the Nationalist Endeks, be assured by the Government. Prince Radziwill, speaking as a Pole and a Christian Catholic, voiced denunciation of the Endek excesses.
The official casualties of the Przytyk pogrom were given as three killed and twenty-two seriously wounded. Senator Schorr disclosed that one of those killed, the shoemaker Pesach Minkowski, was slain with an axe.
Meanwhile, Governor Dziadosz of Kielce, province in which Przytyk is located, was yesterday deprived of his post, presumably for having failed to take proper precautions to prevent the disturbances. In his place has been appointed Police Inspector Piatkiewicz, who is remembered as having been the chief defense witness in the famous Steiger trial at Lwow. (Stanislaw Steiger, Jewish student, in 1925 was acquitted of charges of having thrown a bomb at President Wojciowchowski.)
The emergency conference of Jewish leaders, called to act on the dangerous situation of the Polish Jews, unanimously adopted a resolution against the proposed ban on shechita, Jewish ritual method of slaughtering animals.
The resignation of Vice Minister of Religions Zongollowicz, announced yesterday, was today ascribed to the fact that he had not been shechita commission that the anti-shechita bill was unconstitutional.
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