MILLIONS NEEDED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 282, 29 November 1938, Page 9

MILLIONS NEEDED.

Money For Rescue Of Jews From Germany. HANDSOME DONATIONS MADE. (Received 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, November 28. Leaders of Jewry have decided that £5,000,000 will be necessary to rescue Jews from Germany, of which British Jews and sympathisers will be asked to raise £3,000,000, the United States and other countries £2,000,000. Details of the British effort will be announced at the Mansion." House, London, on December 9. '* Lord Bearsted. the Rothschild family and Mr. Simon Marks, vice-chairman of the English Zionist Federation, have each given £50,000.

SECRET JOURNEY.

Hitler Said To Have Visited

Vienna.

SCHUSOHNIOO'S RELEASE.

(Received 2.30 p.m.)

LONDON", November 28

"The Times" Vienna correspondent says that Herr Hitler arrived secretly on November 26 to discuss the release of Dr. Schuschnigg, who, it is understood, was offered freedom for himself, his wife and son to leave the country, but he refused unless a number of his associates were amnestied.

The correspondent adds from the most trustworthy source that an extensive purge of local Nazis has taken place in which 13.5 were recently shot.

HUNDREDS DEAD.

RESULT Or NAZI CRUELTY. Independent Cable Service. (Received 2 p.m.) PARIS, November 28. Mr. Solomon Grumbach, a member of the Chamber of Deputies and Socialist party foreign affairs expert, declared that German Jewish deaths, resulting from brutal acts, run into hundreds, and probably thousands. The world would be petrified with horror if secret reports were sent out from Germany by foreign consular diplomatic agents for publication, he added.