DEPORTED POLES

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 18, 1 November 1938, Page 5

DEPORTED POLES

RETURN FROM GERMANY. SPEEDED UP BY PISTOL SHOTS. WARNED* NOT TO LOOK BACK. (United Pres 3 Association —Copyright.) BERLIN, October 31.

Six thousand deported Poles, mostly Jews, were permitted to go home to Poland, amid scenes of joyful reunion. Those expelled from Germany followed, and were speeded up by guards, who fired pistol shots over their heads and warned them not to look back, under pain of death. Four are reported to have died.

A Warsaw message says that 7000 Polish Jews were allowed to cross the frontier from Germany. Those arriving at Chojnice complained of the brutal treatment by the Germans, but praised the conduct of the Polish authorities.

STATE OF DESTITUTION. DESPAIRING CRY OF DEPORTEE. (Received This Day, 10 a.m.) LONDON, October 31. The Warsaw correspondent of “The Times” says that the city seethes with resentment against the cruelty accompanying the mass expulsions. The newspapers are prohibited from reporting admissions to Poland, but this is defeated by the populace’s contact -with the deportees, whoso penniless, homeless destitution tells its own story.

One said: “Our only hope is to be allowed to return to the Hell whence we have just come.” Relief workers are doinj* their best to alleviate the distress.

JEWISH REFUGEES FROM GERMANY. STEAMER TO GO TO AUSTRALIA. (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, October 31. The Australian Associated Press correspondent in Berlin says that the newspapers are carrying advertisements from the North German Lloyd Line announcing that the steamer Berlin will make a special trip to Australia, sailing from Bremen on December 19, with only Jewish emigrants. She will call at Melbourne and Sydney. The fare is £75,

JEWS FROM POLAND. (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) BERLIN, October 31. Some 12,600 Jews now in Poland as a result of the mass arrests in Germany may bo allowed to return. ADMITTED TO CZECHOSLOVAKIA. THE MAROONED IN “NO-MAN’S LAND. (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) PRAGUE, October 31. The 4000 Jews who were marooned in “no-man’s land” have been readmitted to They are living in the Brno factory building. They have not been granted citizenship.