JEWS IN GERMANY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 102, 11 April 1933, Page 7

JEWS IN GERMANY

QUESTIONS IN COMMONS GOVERNMENT'S INQUIRIES. ARRESTS OF ENGLISHMEN. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 11 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, April 10. Answering questions in the House of Commons regarding the recent arrest of two Englishmen in Germany, Sir John Simon said that 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 reregarding the charge. The second Englishman, Catchpool, had been released the day after arrest without, it is understood, any charge being brought against him. Sir John 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 German-Polish convention of 1922. Sir John Simon said that the League Council had laid it down that the procedure under Article 11 of the Covenant should not normally be employed in cases relating to the protection ot minorities under treaties and “should only be invoked in grave cases which produce the feeling that facts exist which might effectively menace tho maintenance of peace between the nations.” It was doubtful whether Article 11 could be properly worked in the case of tho 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 their rights under that convention. Replying to further questions Sir John said that the whole subject of the position of Jews in Germany was receiving a great deal of public attention and he himself was making inquiries. Replying to a question Sir John Gilmour said that Jew-s might exhibit posters if they chose to do so but he was sure that the House would agree that 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. BOYCOTT NOTICES IN LONDON. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received 11, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON April 10. Many Jewish shops in the East End restored the German boycott notices following police assurance that they would not take action. It is explained that the police originally ordered their removal with the best intentions. GERMAN-POLISH TENSION. (Received 11, 11.15 a.m.) BERLIN, April 10. German-Polish tension is intensifying. The newspaper “Borsen Zeitung” heads its reports of anti-German 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.