The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-26
ALL MOLDAVIA NOW AFLAME ]
Rapine and PiIIage Sweep Over
the Rumanian Provinces.
An Agrarian RevoIt--Peasant Burn
Entire Towns--1O, 900 Jews
Homeless-Rioters Slain.

Vienna Dispatches from Buchar-
est represent the whole peasantry of
Upper Moldavia as being in revolt.
The seriousness of the situation
growing out of the anti-Semitic and
agrarian disorders has not, according
to the latest telegraphic reports, been
exaggerated.
Four hundred farms in Moldayia
have been devastated, 5000 fugitives
have fed over the Rumanian from
tier into Austria and total of 10 900
Jews are homeless.
The number OF dead and wounded
cannot be given accurately, but the
reports give total of about eighty
five men killed and in the neighbor-
hood of $50 wounded.
The Rumanian Government is
still sending troops into the afflicted
district. Practically the entire PROV
ince of Moldavia has been involved
The Rumanian Government has
summoned all the reserves, totaling
10000, to join the colors. Four reg
iments of infantry and some artillery
have been sent by forced marches to
Iue disturbed QISLr1cLS.
Several Senators and Deputies have
left Bucharest to protect their es-
eates in Moldavia. The rioters in
yaded the estate of Prince Chika and
demanded an interview with him.
They were told that he was in Blu
charest. The rioters teIegraphed to
him to come Immediately or they
would plumber his palace. He re-
piled that he would come forthwith
His spirit distilleTy has already been
burned. Other estates that have suf-
Rered are those of Prime Minister
Cantacuzene, Baron Kapni and Min
lister Rosetti.
In a fight at Bacau the troops
killed forty-two rioters. Berlad is
besieged by 1000 peasants, who
threaten to burn the town. There is
actual or threatened fighting at NTH
aileni and Sereth.
The Austrian Government has
strengthened it's forces on the from
tier to prevent the outbreak from
spreading into Austrian territory, and
it has made a second representation
to the Rumanian Government in ref
erence to the protection of Austrian
subjects in the disturbed area.
Rumanian fugitives are constantly
arriving at the frontier, where it is
now stated there are 5000 of them in
extreme distress.
Agitators are circulating pamph-
lets, purporting to be signed by
Queen Elizabeth Carmen SYLVIA,
urging the peasants to expel the far
mers and spare nobody.
The latest news from Moldavia is
that the peasant anti-Semitic move
ment is spreading. The town of Dor
obei has been sacked and burned and
the inhabitants have fed. In fight
at Cucuteni between the Hungarian
and Rumanian inhabitants four Hun
garians were killed and thirty wound
ed. Fourteen peasants were killed in
a collision with the troops in the Bel
gestle district.
Fokshanu is in revolt. The village
of Suffice has been destroyed. The sit
uation in Rumania is going from bad
to worse. The rioting of the peas
ants, hitherto directed against the
Jews, is becoming general. Troops
are protecting the railroads. A
crowd of peasants stopped train
near Dangeni and robbed the passen-
gers.
For some time past the three great
Jewish families, Fischer, Costenai
and Juster, have formed trust for
the leasing of half of the cultivable
land of Moldavia. The wretched peas
antry and the small farmers are now
taking revenge on all Jews alike.
Most of the estates of the three great
families have already been sacked.
A deputation waited on the burgo-
master of Bucoce to inform him that
1900 peasants desired permission to
plumber the Jewish quarter. PERMITS
sion was granted. Four policemen
directed the Christians to mark their
houses with crosses. The rioters pill
LACED the houses of the Jews, using
brutal violence wherever they met
with resistance. Project Vasesco is
said to be the chief organizer of the
pogroms.
The Government maintains that
the outbreak is purely agrarian. The
fact that a majority of the farmers
and traders are Jews explains why
Hebrews are the chief sufferers and
gives the movement an anti-Semitic
appearance.