JEWISH REFUGEES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 40, 26 November 1938, Page 5

JEWISH REFUGEES.

CHILDREN GOING TO BRITAIN.

HOUSED IN HOLIDAY CAMP

(United Press Association —Copyright.) (Receive This Day, 1.25 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 25.

. Six hundred Jewish non-Aryan Christian children from Germany, who are probably coming to England shortly, will be housed in an East Coast holiday camp as forerunners of 50,000, on behalf of whom 'Lord Samuel and Lord Selborne are making an appeal. Area committees wHI be constituted wherever people Avill take children into their homes or provide for their care. The children will he returned to their parents immediately the latter have left Germany, and can support them.

AN APPEAL TO SOUTH AMERICA.

ASYLUM IN FRANCE OFFERED. (Received This Day, 1.35 p.m.) LONDON, November 25. The Jews in Paris are making an appeal to President Roosevelt to induce the South American Republics to help to solve the refugee problem. The Foreign Minister (M. Bonnet), it is understood, offered to receive 10,000 refugees .if England and America would do likewise. The Rod Cross League is investigating the possibilities of assistance. TOURS OF BURNED SYNAGOGUES.

BURLESQUES OF OBSERVANCES

(Received This Day, 1.25 p.m.)_ BERLIN, November 25

The police in the principal cities' are arranging conducted tours of the burned synagogues for the benefit of the Winter Help Fund. Visitors are occasionally permitted to don Rabbinical robes and burlesque the religious observances.

The Ministry of Economics is opening an offic where Jews can sell jewels and art objects. The chamber of Commerce is supervising this, anticipating that the jews must sell their possessions in order to defray the instalments of the indemnity, which must be in cash unless security is given. Jews must defray the cost of liquidation of their businesses, the creditors of whiclT must be paid before the stocks are offered to retail organisations.

REFUGEES AT SHANGHAI.

ONLY BAGGAGE FROM GERMANY

(Received! This Day, 1.35 p.m.) i SHANGHAI, Nov. 25

A party of 184 Jews from the Buchenwald Prison Camp have arrived here, making a total of 500. They had only baggage, the German frontier officials having confiscated all heavy baggage. The refugees present a problem to Shanghai, which is already overburdened with misery and destitution.