Evening star., 1946-07-05
"a Slain, AZ Hurt
AS Polish Mobs
Attack Jews
Government Forces
In Armored Cars
Suppress Pogrom
By the Associated Press

have been killed and AZ wounded
at the city of Kielce in Poland's
bloodiest postwar pogram, which
was finally suppressed by gov
eminent forces in armored cars.
Kielce is a city of 10000, about
800 OF the population are Jews.
Reinforced military units and Sc
curity police patroled Kielce's streets
Anti-JeWish rumors apparently
touched off the outbreak yesterday
One rumor was that a Polish baby
had been killed by Jews. Another
was that Polish boy had been kid
naped and held in a cellar two days
by Jew
Fascist Elements Blamed.
The Government blamed Fascist
reactionary elements" for the at
tacks, in which Jewish homes were
raided and Jewish shops were
smashed.
The pogrom started about II m
yesterday and continued we'll into
the afternoon as call went out for
militia reinforcements. Then the
aImored cars were brought into play
against the mobS
Authorities reported 62 suspected
of participating in the pogrom were
rounded up last night and said fur
ther arrests were under way. The
streets were cleared 1t was officially
announced that all responsible for
the outbreak would face military
tribunals
A checkup of dead and wounded,
the vast majority of whom were
Jews, may show higher casualties
1t was reported that some security
police and militiamen were killed or
wounded battling the mobs
Snatched From Streetcars.
Jews were snatched from streetcars
and railway coaches. Mobs struck al
the headquarters of the Central
Jewish Committee of Kielce, but
were repulsed after the Jews ap-
pealed to security police and militia
men for assistance.
The government clamped down q
curfeW effective at pm.
The disorder came as the govern
ment announced that early returns
from the Polish referendum last
Sunday gave the government a sub
stantial lead on all three questions
it presented,
A Foreign Ministry spokesman an
lo RI tef5 ~
killed and 308 wounded or arrested
in clashes between security police
militia and outlawed bands preced-
ing and during the referendum.
65 Militiamen Slain.
SiXty-five members of the militia
and the police also were slain in the
clashes. the spokesman said. Vice
Premier Stanislaw Mikola icZyk
leader of the Polish Peasant party
core of the opposition, already has
demanded district by district re-
count of the votes.
The government announced YES
terday that with approximately a
quarter of the votes counted the
three questions presented to the
electorate had heavy yes" ma
Jority, with the count for the one
house legislature running about
three to one. This question was the
only one on which the opposition
made a fight, urging a no"
The complete total of votes is not
expected to be compiled before July
IL and no claims of victory have
been advanced as yet by any party
or bloc The voters were polled on
Poland's new western boundaries
and upon the governments nation
alization acts, as we'll as on the
question of unicameral legislature
A government spokesman cate
gorically denied last night Miko-
laJczyk's charge that 5000 of his
partisans had been arrested in the
Poznan district just before the ref
erendum.
Viktor Grosaz, the foreign minis
try's press chief, issued a statement
in the name of Stanislaw Radie-
Wicz, minister of public security
which said that mot more than zoe
arrests" were made throughout Po-
land and that most of those ar
rested had been released, except
those accused of terrorism.