120 Tried by Court Martial; Government Commission Appointed to Estimate Damage (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Vigorous measures to punish the perpetrators of the anti-Jewish pogroms in Transylvanian towns and in Jassy were taken by the Roumanian government, it was learned today.
In an official statement issued by the Council of Ministers it was declared that the chiefs of police in Grosswardein and Clausenburg were dismissed. Eighty students and forty other persons who participated in the riots will be tried by a court martial before which proceedings were started.
The measures taken by the government, however, have not brought the leaders of the anti-Semitic movement to a state of calm. A twenty-four hour strike of the students throughout the country has been called by the leaders of the student movement to protest against the arrest of the culprits and their trial.
The government also announced that a special commission was appointed to inquire into the extent of the damage suffered by the victims of the riots. A bill will be introduced into parlia-
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