A cable received by the Roumanian legation here declares that the recent reports of anti-Semitic disturbances in Cluj (Klausenberg) and Jassy are of a different character from that which published reports of the incidents indicated.
The cable says: “News about anti-Semitic disturbances at Cluj and Jassy is entirely untrue. The truth is that at Cluj there took place, on the occasion of the communal electoral campaigning, incidents between the Roumanian students and authorities, not one single Jew being implicated. At Jassy two Jewish students, suspected of being Communists, were struck, but not injured. The aggressors were indicted and will be tried. Kindly give a complete denial. The government is energetically meeting any attempt to disturb public order.”
On March 13 the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that four Jewish students were injured at Jassy, that a number of Jews were beaten at Klausenberg during a demonstration against minorities and that in an anti-Russian demonstration in Bucharest, the demonstrators carried anti-Semitic flags. On the same day the International News Service reproted that 100 persons were injured in Klausenberg during a demonstration against Jews and Hungarians.
On March 14 the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that the Klausenberg report that 100 had been injured was untrue, and gave the facts.
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