Twenty-two newspapermen, including 17 Jews, have been arrested and interned in a concentration camp by Rumanian authorities in what is expected to be a major round-up of “alarmists” by the pro-Nazi Gigurtu regime, the United Press reports in a dispatch from Bucharest. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent (Adolf Grindea) was among those seized, the dispatch said.
An official communique quoted by the U.P. said many of the newspapermen had been arrested in coffee houses because they were “spreading alarm.” Most of the Jewish correspondents, it was understood, were employed by local newspapers until recently, when Jewish newspapers were suppressed by the new regime. Some of these journalists, it was alleged, illegally continued their activities.
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