(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Thirteen of the Jewish high school pupils who participated in a protest demonstration against discrimination against them by the Roumanian board of examiners in December 1926 were brought to trial at proceedings started Friday at Suceava, Bokowina.
The city was guarded by special military patrols. All railway stations up to Itzkany, near the frontier of Old Roumania, were placed under special guard by an order of the authorities, with a view to preventing anti-Semitic outbreaks. The Jewish merchants closed their stores fearing the arrival of a demonstration of Roumanian students coming from the Old Kingdom. The police also prohibited the peasants from coming to the towns on the market days during the week.
Seven attorneys are defending the students, among them two Roumanian lawyers. The defense counsel submitted a motion that the accused be granted amnesty in accordance with the recent decree of the Regency granting amnesty to political prisoners.
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