ANTI-JEWISH OUTRAGES

Evening Star, Issue 22797, 4 November 1937, Page 11

ANTI-JEWISH OUTRAGES

CHARGES AGAINST DANZIG NAZIS LAUNCHING OF STREET POGROM Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, November 2. The ‘ Daily Herald’s ’ Danzig correspondent says the World Jewish Congress notified the League that Nazi Government police organised antiJewish outrages, and requested the restoration qf legality. Refugees were streaming across the frontier to escape almost indescribable bestialities, which were officially planned and perpetrated as a prelude to the totalitarisation of the Free City, where the Polish Nationalists are the only non-Nazi party left. The Polish community denies the Government organ’s allegation that they were iespdnsible for excesses in which Storm Troopers led Hitler Youth in attacks against Jewish merchants in Danzig, Langfurt, and Zoppot. Goods bought from Jewish shops were destroyed, and shops were picketed preparatory to launching a street pogrom in which armed and semi-uniformed bands attacked Jews. Storm Troopers smashed windows and shop signs, destroyed merchandise, and thrashed Jews, one of whom was killed. The. police merely hurried spectators past the scenes of the outrages, except in the busiest street in Danzig, where they interceded with the demonstrators, who thereafter contented themselves by throwing shoppers from Jewish shops and ordering the premises to be closed. The marauders continue to terrify the Jewish population of 8,000, and are boycotting Jewish doctors and lawyers, while Storm Troopers outside the house of the League High Commissioner, Dr Burkhardt, prevent any appeal for justice. Furthermore, minorities do not trust Dr Burkhardt, who was the Government nominee and recently washed his hands of Danzig’s “ internal politics.”