FINDING HOMES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 280, 26 November 1938, Page 9

FINDING HOMES.

FOR JEW CHILDREN. 600 May Go To England From Germany. FURTHER NAZI OPPRESSION. T nitPfl p rf , ss Association.—Copyright. (Keeeiverl 1 p m , LONDON, November 25. Six hundred Jewish and non-Arvan niMian children Irom Germany will P'" . v Z" •" England shortlv. Thev win he housed in east coast holidav eamp , ls forerunners of r,0.000 for whom discount. Samuel and Wd ■ el borne are appealing.

All area committees will be constituted wl.erexer people will take children into their homes ~r provide for their •'Hie. The children will be returned to their parents immediately the latter ha\e left Germany and can support tliem.

Ihe police in the principal cities in '■eniiany are airnn-in- conducted tours ot burnt syim 2 0-nes for the benefit of 1 U inter Help Kund. V isitors are occasionally permitted to don rabbinical lobes and there are burle-oiie leli-ious obser\ances.

I he Ministry of Kcouomics is openinan oftice where .Jews can sell jewels and object dart. Ihe Chamber of Commerce is supervising this. anticipat in- that many .lews must sell their possessions in order to defray instalments on the indemnity which must be in cash unless security is «iven. •lews must defray the cost of liquidatiii- their businesses, creditors of which must be paid before stocks are offered to retail organisations. An appeal is beiiijr made to President Roosexelt. says a Paris me—a-e. to induce South American Republics to help to solve tin 1 refu-ee problem. M. Bonnet. it is understood, offered to receive 111.(Mill refn-ees if Britain and America will do likewise. I he Red (loss Lea-ue is in vest i-a t illthe possibilities of jiivin- assistance. A Shan-hai messa-e sax- 1 I*4 -lewfrom Huchenwald prison camp arrived there, makin — the total .",00. The refu—ees had only hand ba--a£c. Cermaii frontier officials confiscated all their heavy lu--a-e. The refugees present a problem in Shan-hai. which is already overburdened with miserv and destitution.

DIRECT HINT. Anti-Nazi Move by President of Brazil. FORCES IN GERMANIC TOWN. NEW November 25. According to the Hio de Janeiro ci»ire-*|>ondrnt of the "New York Times," Brazil is pushing on the work on a big new military barracks at Blumeneau. the most, predominately Germanic city in the State of Santa Catharina. one of the two States where <iermans are the strongest. When finished, the barracks will be occupied by a force of Brazilian regular artillery—a direct hint to the pro-Nazi element that the President, Dr. Vargas, not Herr Hitler. fs Supreme in Brazil, the German population of which totals 1.000,000.

In the latest phase of the battle which the totalitarian States of Europe and Asia are waging to dominate Latin America, this anti-Nazi stiffening of attitude has peculiar significance. Brazil, with an area larger than that of the I'nitcd States, a population of nearly 4.">.(MXUHH>, and a wealth of raw materials to be found in scarcely any other land, would be a particularly valuable plum for the "have not" nations.

CASE VERY URGENT. Offers To Board Refugee Children Wanted. PRIVATE HOMES IN BRITAIN. > . British Official Wireless. I (Received 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, November 25. Viscount Samuel and Karl Selborne. joint chairmen of the British committee for the care of children from Germany, issued a statement appealing for children to be boarded in private homes in liritaiu. The case is very urgent, they »tate. and under proper guarantees at least i'il).(ilN) must be brought out of Germany immediately. Offers of assistance from churches, Jewish communities and other groups, are invited. Nr. J. I*. Kennedy, United States Ambassador in London, speaking at the Thanksgiving Day dinner in London, said that it was probably due to the ideal democracy embodied in their constitution that, despite the fact that tlie American nation consisted of many races, they had little trouble due to uuabsorbed foreign minorities. Citizenship almost completely overshadowed any sentiment of racial origin. MAY NOT GO. GERMAN'S VISIT TO FRANCE. (Kccpiveil 1.30 p.m.) LONDON", November 25. The "Daily Telegraph" Berlin correspondent learns that Herr .von Ribbentrop. Foreign Minister, may not go to Paris in view of the French internal situation.