Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-25
ROUMANIAN JEWS HOMELESS
"oioaVia Peasants murder, Plunde,
and Burn Desnito rroon,

| VIENNA, March 25.-The present unrisjp. ..
| Al 1ioidaVla continues unchecked To DAT.
eishty-hVe persons have been killed fo,r
| hundred farms have been devastated 3 onn
| lusltlVes have fled into Austria and 10 90
Jews are homeless
| thursday 800 peasants invaded Michai.
! iehi' ana the soldiers, by order Of the pre-
| lect OF the town, were not permitted to fire
| some OF the soldiers fired against orders
n'ii"s hi'een or the rioters and wounding
| forty-fve.
AL Fasluf 1000 peasants forced their wav
INTO the town, and the project not having
many troops at his command to sion then,
| was Obliged to be a helpless witness first
| OF the looting Of the buildings on the three
principal streets and then of their burning
| In the meantime, however, reinforcements
arrived, and then there ensued desperate
nghting up and down the burned streets
Twenty rioters were killed and the COM
mander of the troops, a Maj. Calori, was
seriously wounded
Throughout the entire Roman district the
authorities We're powerless, and the peas
ants pillaged burned and devastated every
where. All the buildings in the villages of
Halancesti, Herlesti. Holcisteni and Nine
| lusen were demolished and the villages are
now heaps of ruins.
The most serious fight Yesterday occurred
near Piatra. Several thousand peasants
marched against this town, where a resi-
ment of infantry was stationed. The SOL
diers charged the peasants with fixed
bayonets. the peasants replied with rifle
and revolver fire, and then the troops
opened fire. In the end the rioters re-
treated. leaving forty-two dead. sixty
seven wounded and $50 prisoners. The
troops had eight killed and twenty-scven
wounded.
Most of the fugitives here saved abso-
iutely nothing. -Four thousand Jews fled
a u inrr ha
the authorities. and most Of them are
Obliged to sleep In the open air.
The entire garrison at Bucharest is be-
ing held In readiness. Reinforcements to
the number have been brought in by spe-
cial trains, and 5000 reservists have been
called to the colors.
Fugitives from Botosahni, who were the
first to reach the frontier, say that a body
of 1900 peasants rushed into the town after
midnight. The inhabitants had been in
formed of their coming. and most of the
ward the frontier. The men remained be-
hind to offer resistance and it is reported
that many of them were killed.
1t now appears that the peasants care
fully planned for this uprising by or
ganizing and fixing day to begin IL.
They We're subdvided into bands of 100
men each, and each with an appointed
leader.
The town of Dorogoi was attacked
Thursday by body of 1900 peasants. The
local clergymen tried to persuade them to
retire, but the peasants swept them out of
their path. A regiment of cavalry pres
emily arrived and drove them off after
many had been killed.
1t is reported that university students
from Bucharest and Jassy melted the
farmers to this insurrection. They said
to have travelled from village to village
provoking the peasants by fiery speeches
and violently worded pamphlets.
Reports from Cvernowitz are that Aus
trian farmers in Bukowina secretly crossed
the Roumanian frontier and Joined the
peasants.