Bucharest, Oct. 7.
Sir Reginald Hoare, British Minister to Rumania, went to Ploesti on Saturday and saw Mr. Percy Clark, British engineer, who Was still in bed and hardly able to move as a result of the limb-twisting to which he had been subjected during his abduction, His abductors several Rumanian youths, it is learned, offered to release. him for 10,000 lei. Mr. Clark paid the money and was allowed to go.
When he was a short distance from his captors, more young men -fired at him with revolvers, but without hitting him.
A party of 280 Rumanian intellect trials from Hi -occupied Transylvania has arrived at Curtici, Rumania, in goods trains, says the semi-official Bucharest agency.
The Rumanians declared they had been ordered to leave without warn-
"compelled to take reprisals and expel certain Rumanians" because of the "intransigent attitude" of Rumanian authorities in negotiations for the return of refugees, says. a fraction of the number of. Hungarians expelled by the Rumanians.
"If Rumania continues these expulsions, Hungary will be compelled to take stronger reprisals," the state-—Reuter.
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