The Archive · 1940

Transylvania

Rioters Protest Against Cession of Large Area To Hungary; Police Forced to Act in Bucharest

Budapest, Aug. 31.

ATEST demonstrations broke out in the towns in Transylvania ceded to Hungary by Rumania at the Vienna conference yesterday, according to reports from the Rumanian side of the Rumano-Hungarian frontier last night.

Demonstrations were staged at Kotagyan, south of Nagyvarad. on the Rumanian side of the frontier protesting against the cession of 44,000 squa.e kilometres of Rumanian territory with a population of 2,000,000 persons to Hungary.

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