News Brief

The opinion that the anti-Jewish excesses in Roumanian towns are interfering with the progress of the country was expressed by Mr. Tcherkez, president of the Jassy Chamber of Commerce.

The Chamber discussed the matter at a meeting held yesterday. The merchants complained that the anti-Jewish excesses interefered with trade, the buyers being afraid to travel on the railways. The Jassy Chief of Police has told the Chamber that the relationship between the police and the students is friendly and he hopes that no more excesses will take place.

The director of the Jassy railway declared that steps have been taken to remove from the trains those who instigate the disorders.

Professor Bagdan, Dean of the Jassy University, expressed the opinion that as long as the students will be allowed to interfere with politics, excesses will continue. It is necessary, he stated, to prohibit politics in the university.

George Cretziano, Roumanian Minister in Washington, in a communication to the “Jewish Daily Bulletin,” which had submitted to him the reports of December 6th concerning anti-Jewish excesses in Kishineff and other Roumanian towns, denies the truthfulness of this report. His statement reads:

“A short time ago, near Cernauti, the following incident occurred: Jewish high school pupils, dissatisfied with the eventual results of the so-called ‘baccalaureat’ examination (college entrance) attacked one of the teachers in the street and beat him. Without doubt, this is one of the gravest cases in high school life. A few days later, one of the students, provoked by this incident, committed the unpremeditated and regrettable act of shocting at one of the aggressors of the teachers, killing him.

“Justice takes its course in both cases.

“A part of the Jewish population in Cernauti, at the funeral, tried to make the victim a martyr to the cause. This resulted in interpellations in Parliament. The Government, conscious of its duty to maintain order, acted rightly, showing that it would not tolerate trouble from either side but would guarantee to all the free exercise of their rights within the law.

“Later in Chisinau (Kishineff), in connection with this incident, there was a little friction between the students and a few Jews, which, however, was of no importance.

“There is no trouble anywhere, everything being completely quiet. All rumors to the contrary, which have been spread in foreign countries, are, like the rest, ‘tendencious’ and malicious.”