, 1877-02-04
TEE HOUAIANIAN JEWS.

THE STORY OF THEIR EXPULSION DENIED.
The London Spectator Of Jan. gives currency
to the following paragraph to general report
which had been for some time in circulation in
the different London and Continental papers:
The Christians Of the East seem positively ctazy
with autfpathy to the Jews. Just at this very mo-
ment, when Of the heaviest weights In the scale
against them Is the resentment OF the cosmopolitan
r1ce the Mayor OF BaslMi, in Modaviu. has order.
cd the expulsion Of alt Jews. That order, carried
out BY the mob. Of course, involved conascation Of
property, and long journey In winter, during
which many OF these uufortunates died Of cold and
cnergctcally, and the order will be tescindcd, but
nothing can induce the Rounnnian Parliament to
treat the Jess as fclloT-sub|ccts, or to give Jews
who penetrate into the interior ordinary protection:
They assert that they take 10 forbidden trades yet
virtually refuse them permission to live. by any
other. The proof, however that ths = motive is re-
English, French, or Austrian Jews, who want to
be simple traders.
". Etiennc c. schcndre, Diplomatic Agent of
Roumania at Paris, having seen these reports.
takes occssion in the London Times OF Jan. II to
give the following emphatic denial to them In
the form OF letter:
il paragraph in the Times Of to-day confirms in
still more circumsantnl manner the account given
in the 1I1'ss Of L.st Friday BY Mr. Lowy, the Sec
alleged persecution Of Jews in 1aoumauia- By this
new version the number OF victims Is raised from
:s00 us ut first stated, to some l, 500 persons Of
shc1tercss in the rgor Of winter by the brutal pro-
cecdings of IL Lucscu+ the Project Of the District
of }aslui.
have already been obliged to contradict oficia1-
II the sanc report in the Paris journal des D<1dts
Of the 9TH inst, when the number Of the pretend
cd victims OF persecution had been stated at up
wards Of 3, GOO. Two publications which as6urcdly
cannot be suspected Of hostility the cause OF the
1ssaeitcs-thc Frank fnrter Zeituag and the dfige
mefAe Oesferrkichisehe C0frespoHdeH.-haye also,
OF their own accord. admitted the groundlcssnesB
Of the report, The last-namcd publication states
distinctly that the official Inquiries made by the
Austro- hungarian Consul General at Bucharest,
upon the order Of his Government to take imMe-
diatey the energetic steps in the interests OF
humanity, have proved that ''the pretended per-
seCutions arc gross cxaggerattons- "
1t seems incredible, but 1t Is true, that the whole
OF these injurious reports rests upon facts other
than the closing Of two shops for the sale Of ardent
spirits and the refusal to authorize the opening Of
third, in consequence Of contrnvention Of the law
on rural police, decided on by the Mayors OF the
respective coulMune5, and confirmed by the Prefcct
OF the district in question.
A few weeks since an illustrated Partisan peri
odfcia!-Le Monde Ntustre-published drawing
pretending to represent ,nilinry demonstration
ugnlnst the Jews in the City Of Jassy." There Is
not even the prctezt OF the closing OF two rum
shops for this outrageous calumny, which Is purely
md simply the work OF malicious Imagination.
Giving the most categorical official denial to all
similar reports, leave your readers to appreciate
by what motives the manufacture and rei1czation
OF them may be prompted, nn1 trust to the fair
ness which has always characterized yonr columns
to give i place to this emphatic disclaimer.