Five Roumanian peasants have been sentenced to jail for having participated in the attacks on Jews in the Bessarabian town of Baltzi, June 18. One of them, Slobdnic, was given a thirty-day term and the other four, Costuic, Wester, Condrea and Voronin, were let off with fifteen-day terms. The sentence was imposed by the Kishinev tribunal, which found the five peasants guilty of invading the Jewish quarter and smashing windows of Jewish houses and shops.
The trouble in Baltzi began with the arrival of a number of anti-Semitic peasants, followers of Professor Alexander Cuza. The peasants coming to market made disparaging remarks about the Jews and a clash followed in which a number of Jews were injured, a boy by the name of Landau being so seriously hurt that it was at first thought he was dead. Immediately after the incident it was brought up in parliament and a police investigation was begun.
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