(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The demand of a group of anti-Semitic professors, members of the faculty of Bucharest University, that the terms of expulsion of the students found guilty in the anti-Jewish riots in Transylvania be shortened was granted by the university senate.
The decision was taken following a stormy session of the university senate.
Simultaneously, the Court of Appeals rendered decision in the appeal of the Roumanian students convicted and sentenced to prison terms for desecrating the Jassy synagogue. The court also reduced the terms of imprisonment to one-half and one-quarter the original terms.
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