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...students who had come from Bucharest and Jassy to hold a Nationalist congress at Oradia Mare, later claimed that the riots started when two Jewish butchers poured a caldron of boiling water on the heads of student marchers. This tale, perhaps true, was the only excuse offered last week, for the following student reprisals...
...Bucharest the U. S. Minister, kindly, astute William Smith Culbertson, instantly filed a stiff, uncompromising note of protest with the Rumanian Foreign Office and announced that unless positively asured of Mr. Keller's safety he would go himself to Oradia Mare. The Rumanian Government, impressed, dispatched a "special investigator" to watch over U.S. Citizen Keller...
Riots Continue. Although more than 400 of the student rioters were arrested when they returned by train to Bucharest and Jassy, last week, dispatches continued to report sporadic outbursts against Jews. At Jassy itself the police were not able to restrain friends of the imprisoned students who "demonstrated" by invading a synagog, while the congregation was at prayer and thrashing 30 Jews & Jewesses. When at Bucharest the arrested students were searched, their pockets were found crammed with loot, and around the waists of many young women students were discovered up to half a dozen pairs of silk stockings which they...
...despatch from Bucharest, last week, told that Prince-Regent Nicholas of Rumania had forcibly arrested a truculent taxi driver who refused to pull over out of the way of His Royal Highness' roadster. Reputedly "Prince" Nicholas seized the protesting man by the collar, lifted him into his own automobile and sped to the police station, where he left his prisoner." Persons who recall the bantamweight proportions and receding chin of Prince Nicholas, 24, think that this story...
Died. Rear Admiral William Hannum Grubb Bullard, 60, suddenly, of heart trouble, at Washington, D. C. Died. Jon Bratiano, 63, powerful Premier and "iron man" of Rumania, four times (1908-10, 1912-18, 1922-26, July-November 1927) Prime Minister, foe of the exiled onetime Crown Prince Carol; in Bucharest; after three operations had been performed upon his throat...