BULGARIAN STUDENTS' RIOT.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXII, Issue 2513, 13 December 1927, Page 5

BULGARIAN STUDENTS' RIOT.

ARRESTS AND IMPRISONMENT.

(Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 11.45 a.m.) London, December 12,

The Daily News' Belgrade correspondent says it is estimated that Roumanian students inflicted half a million worth of damage in Transylvania.

Five hundred looted a Welsh shop in * Klausenburg. The riots spread to Bessarabia, where there were 2000 arrests, and 400 hundred students imprisoned.

ANGLO-AMERICAN PROTESTS.

Association.—Copyright.) (Received 11.45 a.m.) London, December 12.

The Daily . Mial's Bucharest correspondent reports that British and American Ministers protested regarding the students' damage to the nationals' property at Nagyvarad and -Klausenburg. The chief of police at Nagyvarad ■reports that the town locks as if it had been visited by an earthquake. Among the dastardly incidents reported is that a student from a train lassoed three Jews and two Hungarians,, dragging them until the rope broke.

They brutally assaulted five school girls, whom they kidnapped at Nagyvarad, and forced others from four to five years of age to drink spirits. A student, Zelea Codreance, recently implicated in the assassination of a Jassy police chief, led the riots at Klausenburg.

RIOTING CONTINUES.

(Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 11.45 a.m.) , Bucharest, December 12. Hunger , striking and rioting at Jassy continued for two days. -Thirty Jews were maltreated while praying at a Synagogue. The Roumanian Peasants' Party is 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 20 years' imprisonment. Several others were sentenced variously from five to fifteen years.