News Brief

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)

About 300 students, delegates to the Jassy Congress, arrived here yesterday for a banquet arranged in their honor by Archbishop Gurie of Kishineff. All Jewish passengers on the train on which the students were travelling were thrashed. The students went from compartment to compartment attacking all whom they took to be Jews. Whenever the train stopped at a station, Jews found on the platform were assaulted. Attacks on Jews were also made at the Kishineff railway station.

The students marched in procession from the station to the Cathedral where a service was held; they then visited the Theological Faculty, the Museum and several other institutions. All along the route of their march Jews were insulted and molested. In Gogol Street they assaulted a woman whom they took to be a Jewess. In Kiev Street a Jewish advocate named Auerbach was beaten. The students went through the streets demonstrating and beating all passers-by whom they thought to be Jews. In Ferdinand Street they smashed the signboard of the New Palestine Society and split the head of a Jew named Moses Paskar, who was taken to the hospital. A journalist named Sedit was wounded near the Law Courts and had to be taken to the hospital. In Alexander Street, the Jews Jakinsohn, Gorodish-tianu and Advocate Golovsky were beaten, Golovsky was thrown down and kicked by the students. A jewelry shop belonging to a Jew named Grob-druk had its windows smashed and many valuables taken.

Special police and military reinforcements were called in by the authorities to put down the disturbances. General Skereszorianu, acting on the intervention of Advocate Landau and other prominent Jews, brought two additional regiments into the city and cleared the streets.

The city was plunged into panic and all shops, Jewish and non-Jewish were closed down.

At one o’clock, the banquet was given to the students at the residence of Archbishop Gurie. At two o’clock the students leaving the banquet made a renewed attempt at organizing anti-Jewish demonstrations but the police intervened. In spite of the police intervention, the students attacked several synagogues and caused considerable damage at the Haber Synagogue, the Heker Synagogue and the Beth Lechem Synagogue. Jewish passengers were dragged out of tramcars and beaten.

At four o’clock the students proceeded to the railway station, making a friendly demonstration as they went outside the offices of the anti-Semitic newspaper “Romunia Nuovo.” A force of cavalry tried to disperse the demonstration and in the charge, a number of students were thrown down and five of them including one girl student were trampled under the horses’ hoofs.

At the railway station more attacks were made on Jews, and Gerstenstein of Ackermann and Grabluss of Kishineff were seriously injured. No official list of casualties has been issued. The leader of the anti-Semitic students in Kishineff, Girneatzu was also injured and has been in the hospital. At Ka-larasch, the students stopped the train and alighted, they went into the town beating Jews and smashing windows.