Antisemitic Student Riots Assume Formidable Form in Hungary: Fuenfkirchen University Closed Down Til

The new outbreak of antisemitic rioting at the University of Fuenfkirchen (Pecs) has assumed so formidable a form that the University Rectorate, finding it impossible to restore quiet in any other way have ordered the University to be closed down for several days to allow time for feeling to subside. If the disturbances are renewed when the University is reopened next week, the announcement says, the University will be closed down for the rest of the term.

Meanwhile, Jewish students were set upon to-day by their antisemitic colleagues in the University Library and in the building of the Law Faculty. Antisemitic manifestations took place also in the streets. Several shop windows were smashed and an attack was made on the editorial and printing offices of the “Pecsi Naplo” (the pecs or Fuenfkirchen Journal).

The police took active measures to restore order and five of the antisemitic students were arrested.

The Hungarian Universities are the scene of periodic antisemitic outbreaks, the latest of which took place only last November, when they occurred simultaneously at the Universities of Budapent and Szegedin. It happened that the same month serious anti-Jewish student riots took place also at the Universities of Vienna, Berlin and Lemberg, so that there were four different countries involved. Curiously, Fuenfkirchen was the only Hungarian University where the Jewish students were not molested during the serious anti-Jewish student disturbances in Hungary in 1928, which led to something of an incident, when Mr. Bruno Heilig, the Budapest correspondent of the Ullstein Service, which publishes the “Vossische Zeitung” and other German newspapers, was expelled by the Fungarian Government, which took exception to the reports which he sent to his papers describing the antisemitic student disturbances as pogroms.