King Carol today dissolved the new Parliament, before it had met once, and ordered new elections for March 2 and the opening of Parliament March 10. The move had been expected since Premier Octavian Goga, chosen by Carol to head the Rumanian Government, controlled only nine per cent of the Chamber which would have met in February.
Meanwhile, the authorities in the Bessarabian town of Baltzi forbade the Jewish population to speak Yiddish, according to reports in Porunca Vremi, Nationalist daily.
Correspondents of German Nazi newspaper, Holtzar of Der Stuermer and Schmidt of the Voelkischer Beobachter, have arrived in Rumania to report on the Jewish situation. They are visiting Jewish quarters in Moldavia and Bessarabia with cameras and motion picture equipment. They were officially welcomed by the mayor of Jassy.
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