The sum of twenty million lei allotted by the Government as compensation for the victims of the anti-Jewish excesses in December is estimated to cover less than seven percent of the actual amount of damage done to Jewish property during the disturbances. The Jewish population is greatly dissatisfied at the inadequacy of the compensation allowed them by the Government.
It is pointed out that the American citizen, Captain Keller, who was injured during the disturbances, was given almost as much in compensation for himself as is now being allocated for all the Jewish sufferers combined.
Recently the “Dimineatza” complained that the Government has failed to carry out its pledges to pay compensation to the victims of the anti-Jewish devastations in Transylvania. Not a single penny, it declared, has been paid out in compensation. Five million lei have been given for the rebuilding of the devastated synagogues and schools. Compensation was given to a few foreign subjects, but that is all No one else has received anything, the paper stated.
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