JEWS IN GERMANY

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 April 1933, Page 7

JEWS IN GERMANY

SIR J. SIMON’S STATEMENT

NOT CASE FOR LEAGUE

[BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.

RUGBY, April 10.

Answering Commons questions, regarding the recent arrest of two Englishmen in Germany, Sir J. Simon said the British Consul at Berlin had been informed by the police authorities that Fraser was charged with having committed “acts in preparation for high treason,” and was to be transferred to Moabit. Prison, to await trial. The British Ambassador had asked the German Foreign Minister for more precise information, regarding the charge. A second Englishman, Catchpool, had been released the day after arrest, without, it was understood, any charge being brought against him. Sir J. Simon was asked whether action to protect the Jewish minority in Upper Silesia would be taken by the League of Nations, and whether the Jewish minority was not. guaranteed full equality under the GermanPolish Convention of 1922. He said the League Council had laid it down, that the procedure under Article II of the Covenant should not normally be employed in cases relating to the protection of minorities under treaties, and “should only be invoked in grave cases, which produce a feeling that facts exist which might effectively menace the maintenance of peace between nations.” It was doubtful whether Article 11 could be properly worked in the ease of the Jewish minority in Upper’ Silesia. Regarding the German-Polish Convention, he was not. aware that any appeal had been made to the Council, on the ground that the Jewish minority had been deprived of rights under that Convention.

Replying to further questions, Sir J. Simon said the whole subject of the position of Jews in Germany was receiving a great deal of public attention and he himself was making enquiries.

BOYCOTT IN LONDON.

LONDON, April 10

The police have requested Jewish traders in the East End to remove the German boycott notices, on the ground that the notices are liable to cause breaches of peace.

Most of the traders have complied but others have protested to Scotland Yard, which has disavowed any knowledge of the action taken.

LATER—

Many Jewish shops in the East End restored the German boycott notices, following the police assurance that they would not take action. It is ex plained that the police originally ordered the removal, with the best intentions.

In reply to a question Sir A. Gilmour said the East End Jews might exhibit posters if they chose to do so, but he was sure the House would agree it was undesirable that members of the public should, at present, take any action liable to inflame feeling. It was certainly the intention of the Government to allow all reasonable expression of free opinion in this country, on the matter.

JEW FOUND MURDERED

BERLIN, April 10

Eric Hanussen, a Jewish clairvoyant, and a water diviner, had been missing since March 23, and his murdered body was found by a cyclist near Berlin, who noticed two dogs quarrelling over the body, which was lying in a plantation riddled with bullets.

Hanussen was an enthusiastic Nazi, He prophesied Hitler’s advent, to power in 1929, but the Nazis resente

d Hanussen’s enthusiasm. Detachments of Storm Troops raided his house and captured him. Since then he had not been seen.

POLISH RETALIATION.

BERLIN, April 10

A Warsaw message states that the Young Jews Organisation at Lodz in Poland, wrecked the offices of the German newspaper “Freiepress” there. They’ also smashed the windows of the German Consulate at Lodz.

WAR FEELING GROWING

(Rec. April 11, 1 p.m.)

BERLIN, April 10.

The German Polish tension is intensifying. The newspaper “Borsen Zeitung” heads its reports of antiGerman demonstrations in Polish towns with, “Poland incites to war,” and demands sharp action. The Government has instructed the Minister at Warsaw to protest against the excesses and to demand protection for Germans.