Pogrom Victims Arrested, Charged with Provoking Riots, Hungarian Press Hears; Traveller Describes Grosswardein Pogrom; Filderman Protests Against Exploiting Excesses for Hungarian Propaganda (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Although order was restored in Transylvania, the scene of the anti-Jewish pogroms last week, new riots were perpetrated by the Roumanian students in Jassy on Saturday, December 10, the anniversary of the anti-Semitic student movement in Roumania.
Notwithstanding the order of the Roumanian government, prohibiting public demonstrations, the students gathered in Jassy, attacking Jewish passersby and invading the Great Synagogue during prayer. The interior of the synagogue was greatly damaged, and thirty of the worshippers were injured. The gendarmerie intervened, arresting 40 students.
Reports from Bucharest indicate that the anti-Jewish riots created a serious disagreement in the Roumanian cabinet. It is stated that Minister of Foreign Affairs Titulescu, who was formerly Roumanian Ambassador in London and a member of the Roumanian Debt Commission to the United States, threatened to resign unless Minister of the Interior Duca suppresses the anti-Jewish riots with an iron hand.
“The chronic anti-Semitic excesses make it impossible for me to carry on Roumania’s foreign policy,” Titulescu is reported to have declared in the cabinet.
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