The Government has completed its enquiry into the Soroca affair, the Prime Minister, Professor Jorga, repeated to-day in Parliament when Deputy Landau, the Jewish member from Bessarabia, asked him why the agenda for the fourth debate on the Soroca affair, which he had promised, was not yet available, alleging that the Government was dragging the matter in the hope that it would be dropped. He was in possession of new documents, Deputy Landau added, which would throw important new light on the affair, and he wanted to introduce these in the debate.
The Government will, nevertheless, agree to reopening the discussion, the Premier proceeded, if there are new documents in existence, because the Government has no desire to conceal anything.
When Deputy Landau rose to reopen the Soroca question, the Cuzist Deputies and a number of Government Deputies tried to shout him down, creating a tremendous tumult.
All the Jewish Deputies, two representatives of the Hungarian minority, Deputies Hegedues and Viller, and Dr. Lupu, the leader of the Independent Peasants’ Party, a former Minister of the Interior, all jumped up, protesting against the attempt to prevent the Soroca outrage being discussed.
I myself am going to raise the Soroca affair, Dr. Lupu said, and I demand that all the documents concerning the outrage should be presented to Parliament especially those relating to the postmortem examinations on the victims, so that it should be possible to ascertain whether the victims were shot in the back, while trying to escape, as the Government enquiry stated, or whether they were shot while facing the guard, and all their wounds were in front, as the independent inquiries claim.
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