New anti-Semitic disturbances occurred today in Jassy and Klausenberg. At Jassy, the seat of the university, four Jewish students were injured. None of the professors participated in the trouble. The police arrested the rioters including the leaders and the chairman of the Cuzist students.
At Klausenberg, during a demonstration against minorities, students beat and injured a number of Jews. The police intervened and broke the riot when the students began breaking windows.
In Bucharest theological students leading a demonstration against religious persecution in Russia carried anti-Semitic flags.
The International News Service reports from Bucharest that more than 100 persons were injured, a number seriously, when a mob of Roumanian students stormed the town hall in Klausenberg during a demonstration against Jews and Hungarians studying at the university there.
Taking possession of the town hall the rioters resisted the police and a detachment of troops for an hour. In the meantime a minature battle raged with the students hurling stones and anything else they could lay their hands on from the windows and roof of the building. Many women were injured as the troops dispersed the students by charging the building with unsheathed bayonets.
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