WAR ON JEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 66, 19 March 1938, Page 9

WAR ON JEWS.

NAZIS IN VIENNA. More Prominent Men Commit Suicide. ASMS FOUND IN CHURCHES, United Press Association.—Coprrirht. (Received 10 a.m.) VIKXXA, March IS. What ihe Nazi newspapers call "a great spring-cleaning."' otherwise the wholesale dismissal of ,Tew? from their employment and their exclusion from the professions, continues at high speed. The (.erman secret police are svsiematically investigat innr the entire Austrian Jewish community. It is. announced that the theatres'and music hall* have been completely «;o-od to Jews. 'World-famous artists whom !"V ienna will know no more include. [Richard Tauber. Bruno Walter and Max Reinhardt. Seventeen judges have been di~mi*sed because of having Jewish blood. A feature of the streets is that foreigners are wearing large badges dicating their nationality. More Suicides. The latest lcadin<r to commit suicide are Dr. Wolfgang Denk. known throughout the world as the head of the \ ienna University's second clinic, and an X-ray specialist. M. .Tonas Barak. 'Many high-placed officials at the Kredit Anstalt Bank, including Jews, have been arrested in connection with the financial Heimwehr. A decree prohibits the sale or exchange of art treasures. Jews have been excluded from the famous Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, which has been placed under Commissar Wilhelm Jerger, the composer. It is alleged in official quarters that stores of arms and stocks of anti-Hitler pamphlets have been discovered in. Catholic churches and monasteries in the neighbourhood of Linz. It is also declared that arms were found in tne vault of the cathedral. It is reported that a number of priests have been arrested, in addition to the chairman of the Catholic party. Ex-President Guarded. Members of the Austrian Government have gone to Berlin to attend a, meeting of the Reichstag. The guard on the ex-President, Dr. Miklas. has been made stricter. He is not now allowed to receive visitors or to leave his hmw. The British Consul in Vienna has received assurances that the frontier authorities will observe respect toward all bearers of Britir-h passports, even though they may be of the Jewish race; also, if it is claimed that any property is British, no action will be taken to confiscate it until it is established whether the claim is valid. SUICIDE ATTEMPT? Austrian Jew Not Allowed to Stay in Britain. 1 "THEY WILD GET ME." (Keceived 11 a.m.) LOXDOX, March It. Refused permission to stay in the country on his arrival at Croydon by the Swiss air liner from Zurich last night, an Austrian Jew, Paul Rcndi, snatched a phial from his pocket and drank the contents. Hf was taken to hospital, but he later recovered. It is expected that he will be put aboard an outward-bound air liner today, probably on one bound for Amsterdam. where he has friends, or for Switzerland. When the machine alighted. Rendi pleoded with the immigration officials to allow him to remain, saying, "They'll get me if I am forced to return to Austria.". He said he was a friend of the late Major Fey. It is understood that he was told his papers were out of order. " DOWN WITH HITLER."

DEMONSTRATION IN SYDNEY. (Received 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. There was a small demonstration outside the office of the German ConsulGeneral to-day when Dr. R. Asmis refused to hear a deputation from the Movement Against War and Fascism. A crowd quickly gathered and posters were produced demanding the return of the Consul-General to Germany. Sliouts of "Down with Hitler," were also heard. The police moved quietly anions the crowd and eventually it dispersed without incident. CONSUL STAFF ARRESTED. AUSTRIANS IN MUNICH. (Received 12 noon.) MUNICH. March IS. Ludwig Jordan, the Austrian ConsulGeneral in Munich, and the entire Con-sulate-General staff have been arretted by the secret police. CZECHOSLOVAKIA. No British Declaration of Support. DOMINIONS' ATTITUDE. LONDON. March 1 The British Government ha- df-r?<!ed against a declaration pi onii-ii::: support of Czechoslovakia, -ays dij lunatic I correspondent of the in Mail.* | Reactions from tlif 1 • n.i!,■ ■ •:i '.•oernments show reli'.-t m■ - :o =->il»| M,r t a policv .if meiidiii _■ in tci.tral Europe, and the Pi in Min:-t-r. Mr. Chamberlain. is prepai'i-i :<> .-..ntiiiue his j-olicy of ma 1 '■]' * '.j ! :i'--- without committing the ■•..iinti\ my fresh obligation. •' NO KNOWLEDGE." MR. LYONS QUESTIONED. MELBOURNE. March IS. In rerlv to a question, the Prime Minister. the British°<Vvernn,ent had declared «£«"£ minion?- and he was not prepared to comment on it.