HC Deb 23 February 1872 vol 209 c946
SIR FRANCIS GOLDSMID

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether Her Majesty's Government have received information of tumultuous attacks made on the Jews in several towns of Roumania, in consequence of an accusation made against a Jew of having stolen a sacred article from a church in Ismail; and, whether instructions have been given to Her Majesty's Consul General in Bucharest to make any friendly representation on the subject to the Roumanian Government?

VISCOUNT ENFIELD

Sir, both at Ismail and at Cahul, a small town 40 miles from Galatz, disturbances have arisen, and attacks been made upon the Jewish population of those districts, in consequence of an act of sacrilege and robbery that had been committed in the early part of January by a Jew in the Cathedral Church of Ismail. Mr. Consul General Green reports that he has appealed to the Roumanian Government to restore order, and Her Majesty's Government, on hearing of these disturbances, at once telegraphed to Mr. Green to do all in his power for the protection of the Jews.