(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Tuesday, Jan. 3, the day coinciding with the Jewish religious fast Assarah B’Teveth, was observed in all the synagogues throughout the country in connection with the interment exercises held in Grosswardein, Klausenburg, Kishineff and other towns for the portions of the Holy Scrolls desecrated by the Roumanian students during the recent anti-Jewish riots.
The interment exercises were given a strictly private character, only Rabbis and community officials attending, because of the insistence of the Roumanian authorities. The presence of large crowds at these exercises might lead to conflicts with the students, it was stated. In Klausenburg the Roumanian students threatened the new chief of police Michi that if the interment exercises assumed the charcter of a Jewish manifestation, new disturbances would occur. The chief of police warned the students that all disorders would be ruthlessly suppressed.
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