WORK OF REFUGEE COMMITTEE

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 65, 9 December 1938, Page 11

WORK OF REFUGEE COMMITTEE

Director’s Difficult Task (Independent Cable Service.) (Received December 8, 6.30 p.m.) RUGBY. December 7. An answer in the House of Commons referring to tlie work of tlie intergovernmental committee on refugees from Germany stated that the executive authority of the committee was Mr. George Rublee, assisted by a small staff. The Director’s task was, first, to undertake negotiations to improve the present conditions of tlie exodus of refugees and to establish a system of orderly emigration properly organized, and. second, to approach the Governments of the countries represented on the committee which had expressed themselves able and willing to admit refugees to develop opportunities for permanent settlement.

The Director had found it difficult, to make much progress with the first part, but he had been able to do much useful work in connexion with the second part of his duties.

NAZI ANTLJEW LAWS

Rights Of British Subjects

Affected (Independent Cable Service.) LONDON, December 7. The British Embassy in Berlin has informed the British Government that the rights of British subjects are affected by the decree forbidding Jews to own property in Germany. Whitehall is urgently reviewing the situation, which raises very complex legal questions. JEWS UNABLE TO BURY DEAD Effect Of Motor-car Ban BERLIN, December 8. As a result of the decree forbidding their using motor-cars, Jews are unable to bury their dead, of whom at least a hundred are awaiting interment, h’s horse-drawn vehicles are forbidden in the city. Non-Jewisli undertakers refuse to carry coffins. Germany’s best-known bank, Mendelssohn and Company, founded in 1795, is being “Aryanised.”

NAZI PARTY PURGE IN FULL SWING

Economic Conditions Becoming Worse (Independent Cable Service.) LONDON. December 7, The "Daily Express" says that economic conditions in Germany are steadily becoming worse and that a party purge is in full swing. It'is stated that the Gestapo (secret police) have arrested several important foreign office oflicials and a number of high civil servants in Dusseldorf, Leipzig and Vienna, as well as 40 army men, including generals.

COUNTERING GERMAN

ESPIONAGE

Scand inav i an A r rests (Independent Cable Service.) LONDON, I lecember 7. 'rhe "Evening Standard’’ says that the police have broken up a vast and elaborate German spy organization t lirougbout Sea nd inn via. Fourteen arrests have been modi ami documents seized In Denmark (lie pro-Nazi party lias been dissolved, in Einland several suspects h.-ive been arrested, and in Sweden a special police section is being organized to eombat espionage.