WEEKLY REVOLUTION.
TRAGI-COMEDY IN BUCHAREST BAYONET AND HOSE. LONDON. April 23. As foreign newspaper correspondents are flocking to Bucharest to witness the socalled Rumanian revolution, the Bucharest correspondent of the Times describes the "revolution'' that happens every Sunday. The opposition parties hold mass meetings in the suburbs, after which they march into the fashionable Victories Street, where demonstrations are forbidden. There is always a large force of police ready, but as it consists of elderly men unfitted for strenuous duty, the garrison is always called out to oppose a line of bayonets to the demonstrators, though it has strict orders not to fire. The revolutionaries try to push pail until the leaders get their toes banned with rifle butts and their clothe* perforated with bayonet points. A select few are then arrested, the revolution u> quelled, and everybody goes home for lunch. j The rising becomes a really desperate affair when water hoses are used against the opposition leader-, who gallantly stand their ground under shelter of i umbrellas. The playi?. however, a tragicomedy. ! since 50 per cent, of the people believe. with a good deal of justice, that the Government is ruining the country.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18389, 3 May 1923, Page 7
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