Iron Guardists, led by Deputy Robu, last night carried out anti-Semitic disturbances on Bucharest’s principal thoroughfare, Calea Victorie.
The disturbances started with an attack on a Jewish engineer, Georg Dattelkremer. Dattelkremer was first verbally abused by Iron Guardist students selling anti-Semitic papers. Six Iron Guardists then knocked him down and beat him with horsewhips.
Dattelkremer’s life was saved by the intervention of passersby, who rescued him and managed to hide him in a chemists’s shop in an adjoining street.
The Iron Guardists, however, soon discovered this hideaway and fifty of them, led by Deputy Robu, stormed the shop and prevented an ambulance from ### first aid. Police reserves were hurriedly summoned and succeeded in restraining the Iron Guardists.
Dattelkremer in the interim was taken from the shop through a back door and sent to the police hospital.
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