A delegation representing the Jewish Deputies Club in the Roumanian parliament called on the Ministry of the Interior, asking the government to take immediate measures to stop the new wave of anti-Semitic excesses that have broken out, the perpetrators being mainly students returning from their convention.
The Vice-Minister of the Interior, Jean Itzescu, assured the delegation that the government has taken strong measures to prevent the spread of the excesses and to punish those guilty.
The excesses occurred during the last few days along the border of Bukowina up to the interior of the Old Kingdom, when a group of Roumanian students on the Bucharest-Czernowitz railroad, threw Jewish passengers out of the train and attacked Jewish homes at the stations where the train stopped. The excesses occurred at the stations Radautz, Dornesti, up to Pascani. A Roumanian professor who attempted to protect the Jewish passengers was beaten.
The Czernowitz newspapers published the full names and addresses of the Jewish passengers who were injured and robbed. The list includes the names of women and children.
The newspaper “Adeverul” reports that excesses occurred at the Bucharest railway station. It urges the gov- (Continued on Page 4)
ernment to punish the rioters as well as the officials who looked on passively.
The Roumanian newspaper “Dimineatza” reports that followers of Alexander Cuza are spreading ritual murder propaganda, disseminating brochures containing illustrations which purport to depict how Jews slaughtered a Christian girl for ritual uses.
Deputy Meyer Ebner of Czernowitz telegraphed to the Minister of the Interior asking for immediate steps Chief Rabbi Niemerower personally intervened with Vice-Minister Itzescu.
The Roumanian press reports that the students who attacked the Jewish passengers on the Bucharest-Czernowitz train did not spare two year-old children. They tortured the passengers with untold cruelty, inflicting burns with their cigarettes. Leading among the perpetrators, the reports say, was a baptized Jewish student, Botezat from Petroneamtze.
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