Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-23
KING CHARLES WILL
NOT HEAR THEM
Refuses Point Blank to Listen
to Students Who Want Him
to Support Peasants.
SITUATION MORE SERIOUS
Every Jewish Building in One City
Destroyed and Many Persons
Are Injured.
TOWNS AND CITIES SACKED
Scores Are Killed in tho Attacks and
the Worst is to Come All
Over Roumania, It is
Feared.
TOWNS AND CITIES SACKED

| BUCHAREST, Roumania, March
23.-king Charles today refused to
receive in audience a delegation of
students from Jassy University, who
desired to urge him to support the
peasants in the present movement.
The delegates, .incensed at his mai
estys refusal, issued several PAM
phlets, melting the population to as
sist the revolted peasantry. These
are now being widely distributed in
Bucharest.
VIENNA, March 23.-According to a tele-
gram received here today from Czarnowitx,
on the Roumanian border, Verpole and
Pudesti have been captured by peasants,
who took the places by assault and pill
LACED and devastated Them
The attack on Misaileni, Roumania, con-
tfnues, the peasants persstently assaulting
the town. The troops have thus far been
unable to drive back the peasants, and
many have been killed or wounded on both
sides.
A letter has reached the Israelite Alliance
from Poduilaeli, Rumania, stating that
every Jewish building there has been de-
stroyed, and that great many Jews ana
Their Wives and children have been .in-
jured. The peasants who attacked the
place were melted by speeches deliverd
by teacher belonging to one of the pub
| lie schools who urged the expulsion of all
Tor for
| pied by Jewish tenants.
Cacona, Bosia and Paprikani Rouman MIA
| are reported to have been completely de.
stroyed by band of 1900 peasants Only
buildings where the inhabitants placed
crucifxes between lighted candles in the
| windows were spared.
Thinks It Anarchy. =.
BUCHAREST. Roumania, March 23-In
the opinion Of the Roumanian government
the rising of the peasants in Moldavia ID
more of an anarchistic character than anti
Semitic In reply to requests for a state
ment on the subject today Finance Minister
Ionescu wrote the following note:
THE present regrettable movement 10
not only of an anti-Semitic, but also of an
agrarian and anarchistic character Tho
houses Of Christians, both owners and ten
ants, have been destroyed. The govern
ment has taken all the possible measures to
cope with the movement, which must now
be regarded more an anarchistic cam
paign than anything else.''
According to the latest advices received
here the movement is spreading southwark.
Bands of peasants in the Brahlov and
Buzeu districts, mostly armed with cudgels
are marauding over the farms, threatening
the preprietors with death unless they
ame1iOra the conditions pf
Well Organized Peasants.
The government claims that the disturb
ances have been quelled in the districts into
which 1t has been able to get sufficient
troops. regiment of cavalry left here to-
day for the Bacau and Vaslui districts.
In the Bacau, Vaslui and Roman districts
the peasants are we'll organized. Most Of
them have served in the army and they
have formed themselves into companies and
regiments under officers and are plundering
small towns and villages wherever there ia
an insuficiency of troops to overawe them
without distinction to nationality In
several instances the farmers and land
owners have yielded to the demands of the
peasants and the raids have ceased.
In the attack made by the peasants ON
troops at Blegest in the Bacau district,
which resulted in fourteen Of the attackers
being killed, the peasants seized Col. Polt-
ger, who was in command of the troops,
and locked him up in the house of the pub.
lie prosecutor, which they were preparing
to burn when the troops dispersed them
A Serious Encounter.
A serious encounter between the troops
and peasants has occurred at the small
town of Misaileni near the Bukovina from
tier, in the district of DOrohoi. Scores Of
peasants were killed during the fighting.
The disturbed sections of the country
have been pIacarded with an announcement
made by the government that a bill against
farming trusts will be submitted to parlia-
ment during the present session.
Devastation is Widespread.
CZERNOWITZ, Austria, March pa
Roumania, by way of Dohoroi. says that
the devastation wrought by the peasants 10
far more widespread than reported. For
six days Jassy has been besieged by thou
"a nds of raiders. Every morning the com.
nander of the troops tries In vain to nego-
tate for a settlement with the raiders. but
the latter will not bulge until forced to do
no by the arrival of additional troops. The
residents of Jassy fear that unless outside
regiments are quickly brought in the local ,
soldiery may Join the peasants.
From Panciu. district of Fokshanu, comes
q report that the banks there have been
pillaged. Numbers of Jews fed to Mara
shostie, but only to be driven out, many Of
their women and children being compelled
to nee half dressed.