JEWISH GRIEVANCES

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 December 1945, Page 9

JEWISH GRIEVANCES

MUNICH CAMP CONDITIONS. LONDON, December 6. Dr. Lee Srole, welfare director for UNRRA at the Landsberg Jewish displaced persons’ camp, near Munich, has resigned as a protest, against conditions under which he alleged the Germans were “coddled" and the Jews neglected. Other allegations included: (1) That Jews were packed into rooms in which two and three persons were crowded into a single bed; (2) that children were placed in damp cellars already condemned for German prisoners-of-war; (3) the Army had refused to face the responsibility of making a haven for the thousands of Jews driven from Poland. Dr. Srole described the conditions as outrageous. He added that they threatened epidemics and the deaths of thousands of inmates of the Landsberg camp. Lieutenant-General Walter Bedell Smith, Chief of Staff of the United States Forces in the European theatre, will visit Landsberg to-day to make investigations. ‘ ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. TEL AVIV, December G. The Chief Secretary to the Palestine Government (Mr. J. V. Shaw) disclosed that since the end of the European war, 427 illegal Jewish immigrants had beenkdetained in Palestine. Of this number, 407 had been released and 15 deported. He added that a preliminary estimate of the loss and damage resulting from the incidents at Tel Aviv on November 15 amounted to £50,000 sterling. REPRISALS THREAT. JERUSALEM, December 4. Six members of the Sixth Airborne Division have been selected to be killed as a reprisal for the six Jews killed in last week’s disturances, according to a note received by Major-General Bols, commanding the division. The threat is believed to have been sent by Jewish terrorists. Brigade commanders have been advised to warn troops to, be on the alert. ARAB REPLY. (Rec. 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, December 6. The Arab League, replying to Mr. Bevin’s Commons statement on Palestine, said that investigations by the proposed British-American committee into further Jewish immigration into Palestine were unjustified. The League appreciated Mr. Bevin’s sincere effort, but said it was impossible to cure persecution by persecution of another sort. Arabs would never be able to agree to any Jewish immigration emanating from Zionist., pressure. Despite Nazi-Zionist terrorism, many Jews have expressed a desire to leave Palestine.