POLISH POGROM TERROR
WRECKAGE AND LOOTING
MANY JEWS RUINED
LONDON, May 26.
The Manchester Guardian's special correspondent at Brest-Litowsk discloses the details of a terrible Polish pogrom at Brest-Litowsk, lasting 15 hours, during which the Jewish population of 20,000 was at the mercy of the mob.
Whole streets of houses and shops were wrecked and looted, and synagogues and schools were demolished. Hundreds of the poorer Jews are ruined.
The rioters, chiefly peasants, were led by Fascist and anti-Semite party agitators, most of whom are non-Jews, who often applauded the looters, though othors courageously saved Jewish property from destruction.
The Minister of the Interior has ordered an inquiry.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19335, 27 May 1937, Page 5
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