NAZI ATTITUDE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 116, 12 November 1938, Page 9

NAZI ATTITUDE

ANTI-JEWISH RIOTING

UTMjDST SEVERITY

SCORES OF ARRESTS MADE

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received November 12, 11.45 a.m.)

LONDON, November 11

The Berlin correspondent of the British United Press says that a mob which attempted to renew the rioting' found that the attitude of the authorities had changed to the utmost severity, scores of people being arrested at the slightest indication of causing havoc. The streets were cleaned up today ajid only boarded shop*windows, which is a condition of half the premises in the West End, recall the outrages. Nazi circles estimate thai thousands of Berlin Jews have been sent to concentration. camps.

Jews in Munich who appealed to

the chief of police to know whither they could go were fold they might stay. The police deny knowledge of an expulsion order, which the Brown Shirts apparently circulated without authority.

A Berlin message stales that the Minister of Propaganda, Dr. Goebbels, repudiates an assertion that the attacks on Jews were organised and says that they were merely spontaneous outbursts, with no plundering and no injury to Jews. The police were not instructed to remain passive.

The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," referring to Dr. Goebbels's denial, points out that it is admitted that at least 200,000 police would have been, required to protect shops. It is also claimed that the demonstrations would have been more radical if they had been organised. It is apparent that the admission of inability to maintain law and order conflicted with the statement that the demonstrations ceased immediately the order was issued. It is also significant that the demonstrations started simultaneously throughout Germany. Police headquarters declared that the Propaganda Ministry was bearing the whole responsibility.

The correspondent adds that after the issue of-the cessation order an elderly Jew was trampled to death last night and a children's home at Isenburg set on fire. It is believed that 8000 Jews have been arrested in Berlin and 35,000 throughout the Reich.

The Australian Associated Press says that Sir George Ogilvie-Forbes, Counsellor at the British Embassy in Berlin, in the absence of the Ambassador, Sir Nevjle Henderson, who is on holiday, made representations to the German Government asking for the safeguarding of the property of i British Jews, who number about 300.