Bucharest, Aug. 9.
In a nation-wide broadcast tóday, Premier John Gigurtu emphasized the determination of the Rumanian Government to collaborate to a full extent with the Rome-Berlin Axis, as Jewish correspondents in the capital were arrested and sent to a concentration camp.
Premier Gigurtu declared that full ce-operation with the Axis was the only way 1o raise the standard of living of the country's peasants.
"A policy of ce-operation with Germany and Italy is the most favourable for Rumania, because it can save us from Jewish influence which is very perilous and detrimental to our advancement as a nation," he stated.
As an echo of his speech, seventeen Jewish and five other correspondents were arrested i" Bucharest today, and sent to the concentration camp in Caracal, 150 kilometres from the capital.
An oficial communique said that many were arrested in coffee-houses, where they were "spreading alarm.
In the course of his pronouncements, Premier Gigurtu emphasized the complexity of the territorial dispute between Rumania and Hung: and minimized differences existing between Rumania and Bulgaria—United Press,
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