ROUMANIAN RIOTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 30 March 1907, Page 2

ROUMANIAN RIOTS.

LATEST OAJ3LE NEWS. I'NITED PBKSB ABSOCIAHOH—III * ULSCTBIC TKLXOIUriI. —COPTOIGHI.

TJiMIiJJLE ATltOClTlliS COMMITTED liucliarcst, March 27. The Koumanian trouble is only partly anti-Semitic, ami is hugely due io trusts monopolising la ml ami I easing it to peasants at twice or thrice the rental the trusts pay. Serious encounters occurred between peasants and troops in (he Vhishku district. ol Kouinania. .Many peasants were killed or wounded. Telephones and telegraphs lmvc been cut. I'easants, led by village schoolmasters, coinniitted terriblo atrocities.. Many landhohlers were burned to death, and the entire village of Budemy was burned. Many Jews perished in the Ihiuics. Hills for the abolition of taxes iu favor of the peasants have passed this I louse. I'TRTHEK SANIU'LNAKY CONFLICTS 200 PEASANTS KILLED AXD j WIHXDED. lteeeived 28th, 11.22 p.m. liucliarcst, .March 28. In the conllicls in the (lit and Damboritza districts, lioumauia, 200 peasants were kilted and wounded. Iveccived UOtlt, 1.17 ft.in. liucharest, March 29. ■ the Roumanian Finance Minister estimates the losses at four million sterling. 'Jhe troops display the greatest vigor. It is estimated the killed number 600, 'peasants wounding inauy. Eleven officers lmvc been killed and wounded. Judications are that many Russian revolutionaries and foreign anarchistic* are assisting the rebels. Some uvgtj that bombs be thrown at the troops.