Riotous Students

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 226, 13 December 1927, Page 9

Riotous Students

LOOTING AND VIOLENCE Great Havoc in Mid-Europe By Cable. —Press Association.-*-Copyright. Received 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Sunday. THE Belgrade correspondent of the ‘‘Daily News” says it is estimated that Rumanian students have inflicted £500,000 damage in Transylvania. Five hundred looted Jewish shops at Klausenburg, and the riots spread to Bessarabia, where there were 2,000 arrests, and 400 students were imprisoned.

nationals’ property at Nagyvarad and Klausenburg. The chief of Police at Nagyvarad reports that the town looks as if it had been visited by an earthquake. Among the dastardly incidents reported, is one in which students from a train lassoed three Jews and two Hungarians, and dragged them until the ropes broke. They brutally assaulted five schoolgirls, whom they kipnapped at Nagyvarad, and forced others, of from four to five years of age, to drink spirits. A student, Zelea Codreanu, who was implicated in the assassination of the Jassy police chief, led the riots at Klausenburg.—Sun.

A MESSAGE from Bucharest says that hunger-striking and rioting at Jassy continued for two days. Thirty Jews were maltreated while praying in the Synogogue. The Rumanian Peasant Party is demanding the resignation of the Government, because of the failure to maintain order. At Uskub, two students were tried for espionage on behalf of the Macedonian Revolutionary Committee, and were sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment. Seven others were sentenced variously with five to 15 years. The Bucharest correspondent of the “Daily Mail" reports that the Brit:-h and American Ministers protested regarding the students’ damage to their