STUDENTS’ RIOTS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 13 December 1927, Page 5

STUDENTS’ RIOTS

CAUSE GREAT DAMAGE. TROUBLE FOR RUMANIA. SOME DASTARDLY INCIDENTS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 9.30 a.m to-day. LONDON, Dec. 12. The Belgrade correspondent of -lie “Daily News” says it is estimated that Rumanian students inflicted damage amounting to £500,000 in Transylvania. Five hundred looted Jewish shops at Klausenburg, and the rb-ts spread to Bessarabia, where there we>-e two thousand arrests and four hundred students were imprisoned. — “Sydney Sun” cable. Received 9.30 p.m. to-day. BUCHAREST, Dec. 12. Hunger-striking and rioting at Jassy continued for two days, thirty Jeiv* were maltreated while praying m a spnagogue. The Rumanian Peasant Party °i.s demanding the resignation of the Government because of its failure to maintain order. At Uskub 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 to from five to fifteen years. The “Daily Mail’s” Bucharest correspondent reports that the Liitish and American Ministers have protested regarding the students’ damage to their nationals’ property at Nagyvarad and Klausenburg. The chief of police at Nagyvarad reports that the town looks as if visited by an earthquake. Among dastardly incidents reported were that students from a train lassoed three Jews and two Hungarians and dragged them until the ropes broke. They brutally assaulted five schoolgirls w horn they* kidnapped at Nagyvarad, and forced others from four to five years •of. age to drink spirits. A student named Zelea Codreanu, who was recently' implicated in the assassination of the Jassy police chief, led the riots at Klausenberg. —“Sydney Sun.”