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Twenty-one students and twenty-eight other persons are being prosecuted in Oradeamare; 44 students and 9 other persons are held in Cluj; 11 students are under arrest in Bucharest because they participated in the Transylvanian excesses. Other students were also arrested. They all will be tried by a court-martial. Public officials who will be found guilty will be dismissed. Students whose culpability will be established will be expelled from the universities.
The victims will be compensated. The amount of $5,000,000 lei was already appropriated as the first installment for the repair of the synagogues, Titulescu declares.
The Roumanian government will do its full duty because it realizes that the first victim of the disturbances is Roumania herself, the Foreign Minister states. The only consolation lies in the fact that no single death has occurred.
Numerous British. American and continental European concerns have withdrawn credits from Roumanian industry and commerce as a result of the student excesses, according to a despatch from Bucharest to the “New York Times.”
The Roumanian government has sent instructions to the Prefect of Police at Oradeamare to visit the American, Wilfred Keller, and apologize. According to Keller, the Prefect of Police, an eyewitness to his being attacked, had refused aid.
Government witnesses also requested Keller to name an indemnity sum for his injuries and the printing plant in which he is interested. Keller, who is said to be recovering slowly, referred them to the American Minister.
When information that Jewish congregations in Roumania had sent out an appeal to hold a three-day mouning in synagogues throughout the world reached the government officials were much chagrined because of the fear that public opinion would be embittered.
The leader of the opposition. M. Maniu, is preparing several interpellations for the next meeting of parliament. He will ask why the government failed to prevent and to end the riots, whether the government sponsored the meeting, knowing riots would result, and what indemnity it will pay the victims.
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