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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 34, 19 November 1938, Page 7

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JEWS IN GERMAN CAMPS. CONFUSION STILL EXISTS. PLANE ENGINE DESIGNER LOST. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.30 p.in.) BERLIN, Nov. 18. Wholesale arrests during the pogrom have caused confusion in Germany. Some persons are temporarily lost. Urgent orders for the release of Herr Stgauss, the Jewish aeroplane engine designer, are ineffective, because it cannot be discovered where lie is held prisoner. A few Jews have been released from concentration camps, some because they are seriously ill, others because they were wounded in the war, or received war decorations, and some are doctors or businessmen whose firms are in process of “Aryanisation.”

THE PENALTY OF WEAKNESS. BRITISH MINISTER’S VIEW. (Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, November 17. The Minister for Co-ordination of Defence (Sir Thomas Inskip) speaking at Eccles, said that Mr Chamberlain’s effort was undoubtedly right in his instinct, and events would not deter him from pursuing his policy. Peace by settlement was the way of the present Government. It was the only way to peace, whether one went to war to attain it or not.

Sir Thomas said he had no desire to divide the German Government from the German people, but he found it very difficult to believe that the Geiman people approved of the appalling treatment of innocent Jewish people. He did not believe such a policy could triumph. It taught the lesson we needed. We must be strong. The Jews were suffering because they were weak. Our first duty as a nation was to help those people perhaps not only in our own country, but if possible in the Empire, and he hoped and believed that other nations would play their part. British Official Wireless.

SETTLEMENT IN PALESTINE.

WORLD FUND PROPOSED.

LONDON, November 17

The Jewish Agency in London has approved of a million sterling budget in 1939, to be raised throughout the world for the settlement of Jews in Palestine. The funds will he allotted for clearing marshes, founding agricultural settlements, housing and roads. A special sum is being earmarked for German refugees.

HUNGARY DISCRIMINATING. LONDON, November 17. In Hungary a. Commission has been appointed to consider the expediting of Jewish evacuation from the Czech territory ceded to Hungary, the exclusion of Jews from the professions, and discriminating against Jewish landowners. ADMISSION TO UNITED STATES. WASHINGTON, November 17. The Secretary for Labour (Miss Florence Perkins) announced that the State Department was considering a proposal to admit 81,000 refugees from Germany, by mortgaging the regular quota three rears in advance.

TAKEN INTO CUSTODY ON STREETS. VALUABLE OBJECTS SEIZED. BERLIN, November 17. The city taxation authorities have received an order to refuse Jews a certificate that all taxes are paid until the fine of £83,000,000 is paid. This means that no Jew may quit the country, as a certificate is an essential ban on the sale of securities by Jews. The regulations have been slightly relaxed and orders to the value of £BO will he accepted in urgent cases. The United States commercial counsellor (Mr Miller) has been recalled to Washington. At Frankfurt on Main Nazi Protective Guards stopped pedestrians and took into custody all who were unable to produce .proof of Aryan extraction. Many houses were searched. At Munich, under the orders of Adolf Wagner, members of the Chamber of Culture, called at the houses of prominent Jews and marked paintings, antiques, and China which wore taken in vans to museums for safekeeping.