JEWS ATTACKED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13858, 22 March 1907, Page 5

JEWS ATTACKED.

HOUSES BURNED IN ROUMANTA. Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright. BUCHAREST, March 20. The peasants at Hottnsani, in Konmanin, set lire to the houses o[ (lie Jews, anil attacked the military, who killed four of them. The outbreak is', spreading, and 20,000 Jews have taken refuge in Austria. fn ltomnaniu lliero are some 225.000 .lews, lo whom Ihe Kouiiuiuians—as one of tlio conditions o[ ttieiv independence—promised, llieir rights. This condition they have not' kept. 'Pile laws are apparently fair, hut in application they hear hiiully on the .Tow. 1 oreiguets ma_v not hold land, and no •lew may liv<> in tin 1 country. In towns he may not ply a trade unless tie can .provo reciprocity in IheJaud of his birth." Whatevev (he cause, thousands of .lews are emigrating from Knimiania to Ihe United States. So many, indeed, that, the United State? Government has protested that Konmanui is not keeping to the conditions' of its . independence. Major Evans (lordnn, M.P., visited the country in 1902. lie says that. Rotnnania's attitude is a scandalous defiance of tho irenly obligations. Tho Roumanian Minister in London declares that, tlio emigration of the .lews is tine to agricultural depression, and not to pen-ecu-tion, of which he says there is none.