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Show ; EJIPDLLED PRGTfi GBRiiIMY Government Takes Action Which ;Is Construed, as " Aimed Mainly at the Jews. taiM subject February 29th. contemptu- j ously alluded to tbe protestants as "beggars and conspirators under -the leadership of Mandelstamms and Sllber- baums." ' " "If these fellows do not keep quiet," said the Chancellor, "we will throw them out." About 400 Russian students met on Saturday- and signed & statement reciting re-citing the utterances of Secretary von Richthpfen and Chancellor von Buelow. "He undertook," says the statement, "by referring to the Jewish, origin of part of the Russians ' here to arouse anti-Semitic prejudices against us. We regret that the . twentieth "century, in the land, of Leasing and Flehte, witnesses wit-nesses such disregard for the great ideals-of humanity as evidenced by these anti-Semitic sallies of the German Ger-man Chancellor." From 428 persons who signed the statement, thirty are selected for:, expulsion. ex-pulsion. . . . BERLIN, . March 18. Thirty Russian students, several of them women, have received yesterday and today from the police notices of expulsion in, consequence conse-quence of participating in a meeting held Sunday o protest against tHe Government Gov-ernment permitting . RusBlan police agents to watch Russian residents In Germany. The students have from three to eight da ye in which to leave the country and may select the frontier to cross, the Government not compelling them to return re-turn to Russia as In some instances. The origin of the dispute between the Government and the students, about 600 of whom are attend! the university and technicaT schools, was in the Socialist So-cialist accusation that the Government was permitting Russian spies to search the rooms, examine the correspondence corre-spondence and otherwise interfere with the liberty of Russians living in Germany. Ger-many. Foreign Secretary Ton Richthofen, in I defending the Government January 19th, said the Russians here were anarchists and that many of the women attending the university or other school ware really not students, but lived in a state of immorality. A few days later from, forty to fifty Russian passed a resolution resolu-tion protesting against these imputations. imputa-tions. Chancellor von Buelow, answering Herr Bebel, the Socialist leader, on the |