Six young Jews, between the ages of 16 and 20 have been shot dead at Soroca, in Bessarabia, while trying to cross the River Dniester into Soviet Ukraine. The names of the victims are Seida, Pferdmann, Riva, Darcauzan, Leib Rudmann and Saul Tzichinowsky.
The frontier guards claim that they shot them because they did not reply to their challenge.
Deputy Michael Landau, the Jewish National Party representative from Bessarabia, has arrived in Bucharest, and has taken up the matter with the Minister of War, General Stefanescu, and the Minister of the Interior, M. Ottescu.
Reports have been put about that the victims were Communists. Their parents, who live in Soroca, deny this.
The Government has promised Deputy Landau to hold an enquiry into the matter, under the direction of the Public Prosecutor. Deputy Landau left to-day for Soroca to be present unofficially at the enquiry.
A report from Bucharest which has appeared in the London press, said, that the Roumanian frontier guards fired on Sunday on six men who were trying to cross the River Dniester into Soviet Russia, severely wounding all of them, one man later dying in hospital. Five of them, the report added, were Communist agents and the other a smuggler.
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