Nineteen persons, a number of whom are believed to the Jews, were killed by Rumanian border guards in the first week of this month, it was disclosed today. The 19 were attempting to cross the border into Hungary clandestinely when frontier patrols operating out of Arad, Transylvania, shot them.
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