Anti-Jewish disturbances have broken out again in Roumania, following student demonstrations held in Bucharest and Jassy.
The police in Bucharest were unable to control the crowd of thousands of students who in defiance of the Government prohibition, marched in procession through the streets, and the authorities called out the troops, who charged the students with fixed bayonets. Many casualties occurred on both sides, and a number of students have been arrested. Professor Jorga, the Prime Minister, who is also Rector of Bucharest University, has ordered the University to be closed.
In Jassy the Cuzist student demonstrators attacked Jews, and the Jassy Synagogue was devastated.
When Deputy Dr. Singer, member of the Jewish Parliamentary Party, ascended the tribune in Parliament and began to address an interpellation to the Government complaining of the renewed anti-Jewish demonstrations, and demanding that the Government should protect the Jewish population, two of the Cuzist Deputies, Deputy George Cuza, son of Deputy Professor Cuza, the leader of the antisemitic Party, and Deputy Robu, rushed on to the tribune, and knocked him down and beat him. Uproarious scenes followed, and the sitting of Parliament was suspended.
King Carol has had an interview with the leader of the students organisation, M. Cotiga, who has in response to the King’s demand given him an assurance that the student demonstrations will be stopped.
Only last week the Jewish Deputies Joseph Fischer and Michael Landau visited the President of the Roumanian Chamber, to complain to him that they were being terrorised in Parliament by the Cuzist Deputies, some of whom, especially Deputy Robu, had actually begun to molest the Jewish Deputies and threaten to thrash them. The President of the Chamber, Professor Pompeiu, promised the Jewish Deputies in his reply that he would ask Deputy Cuza and Deputy Robu to visit him, and he would warn them that they must stop molesting or threatening the Jewish Deputies.
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