Jewish and Hungarian victims of the Grosswardein and Clausenburg riots, numbering hundreds, were arrested by the Roumanian authorities on the charge of having provoked the students to commit the riots, reports from Transylvania received here declare.
Being injured is considered by the Roumanian authorities as proof of guilt, the report states. The victims will be tried by a court martial, it is added. Reports from Clausenburg state that ten streets in the city were affected, that many houses and stores were plundered and that the damage is estimated at 300,000,000 lei. Six synagogues were set on fire.
The report adds that the Jewish leaders Bercovici and Rabbi Niemerower have threatened to appeal to the League of Nations in case the riots are not stopped.
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