CONDITIONS IN RUMANIA.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18856, 8 May 1923, Page 7

CONDITIONS IN RUMANIA.

A WEEKLY REVOLUTION

TEAGI-COMIC DEMONSTRATION S.

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 tire.

The revolutionaries try to, push past until the leaders get their toes banged with .rifle butts and their clothes perforated 'with bayonet points. A select few are then arrested, the revolution is quelled, and everybody ; goes home for lunch.

The rising becomes a really desperate affair when water hoses are used against the opposition leaders, who gallantly stand their ground under shelter of umbrellas.

The play is, however, a tragi-comedy, since 90 per cent, of the people believe, with a good deal of justice, that the Government is ruining'the country.