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33 Wounded in Municipal Election Riots in Rumania

July 30, 1937
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NEWS OF VIOLENT ANTI-JEWISH DISORDERS IN THE PROVINCES SUNDAY IN CONNECTION WITH THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS REACHED THE CAPITAL TODAY.

Thirty JEWS WERE SERIOUSLY INJURED IN THE TOWN OF SIRET, PROVINCE OF BUKOWINA, WHEN A BAND OF YOUTHS TERRORIZED THE COMMUNITY, PILLAGED HOUSES AND PREVENTED JEWS FROM GOING TO THE POLLS. TROOPS FROM RADAUTI RESTORED ORDER.

IN STRAJA, BUKOWINA, THREE JEWS WERE SERIOUSLY INJURED, HOUSE WERE DAMAGED AND THE JEWISH POPULATION WAS THROWN INTO PANIC. SEVERAL PERSONS WERE INJURED AND THIRTY HOUSES AND SHOPS DAMAGED BY FOLLOWERS OF PROF. ALEXANDER CUZA, ANTI-SEMITIC LEADER, IN PANCIU.

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