Thirty-two students who had participated in the anti-Jewish riots at the University of Budapest and the Academy of Music were today fined ten pengoes (about $3.) each.
Despite the fact that the Government had warned of drastic action if the riots continued and had ordered the closing of the university, anti-Jewish attacks continued yesterday. Police charged the student rioters with rubber truncheons and arrested several score of them.
Before noon, several hundred students forced the entrance to the Academy of Music and demanded that the Jews leave. Jewish students at the Polytechnic Institute left the lecture rooms quietly when reports of the Academy riots were circulated.
Minister of the Interior Nicholas Komza issued a statement declaring that the actions of the student rioters were not in the best interests of either the country or the students. He called upon authorities in Budapest and the provinces, to which the rioting had spread, to act energetically to maintain order.
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