ROUMANIAN CRISIS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1927, Page 2

ROUMANIAN CRISIS

ROUMANIAN RIOTERS. [“Sydney Sun” Cables.] (Received this d.av at 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 12. The “Daily News” Belgrade correspondent says it is estimated Roumanian students inflicted half a million sterling damage in Transylvania. Five hundred looted Jewish shops at Klausenburg and the riots spread to Bessarabia, where there were two thousand arrests and four hundred students were imprisoned. BUCHAREST, Dee. 12. Hunger striking and rioting at Jassy continued for two days. Thirty Jews were maltreated while praying in the Synagogue. The Roumanian Peasant Party is demanding the resignation of the Government because of the failure to maintain order. At Askub two students were tried for espionage on behalf of the Macedonian revolutionary committee and were sentenced to twenty years imprisonment. Seven others were sentenced variously from five to fifteen years. The “Daily Mail” Bucharest correspondent reports British and American Ministers protested regarding the students damage to their nationals property at Nagyvarad and Kluscnburg. The chief of police at Nagyvarad ioports the town looks as if visited l.v an earthquake. Among dastardb incidents reported, students from a train lassooed three Jews arid two Hungarians, and dragged then; until the ropes broke. They brutally assaulted five school girls who they kidnapped at Nagyvarad. They forced others four to five years of age to drink spirits. A student. Zelea Co'd re a nu. recently- (implicated in the assassination of Jassy police chief led the riots at Klausenburg.