FATE OF JEWS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 March 1938, Page 5

FATE OF JEWS.

MANY REDUCED TO PENURY.. RUTHLESS PURGE IN PROGRESS (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) Received Thursday, 7.5 p.m. LONDON, March 16. The Times' Vienna correspondent says the purge against the Jews is being ruthlessly carried out. Jewish professional men have been visited by Storm Troopers, who carried off all money, jewellery and other valuables. Many Jewish families have thus been reduced to penury. There has been a renews of pillaging of Jewish shops although this is formally forbidden. All Jews have been expelled from official life. The Viennese theatre is being purged and there will be no performances at the opera until it is reorganised. The Consulates of Czechoslovakia, Poland, Rumania and Hungary are thronged with frantic Jews trying to leave the country. The Daily Telegraph's Vienna correspondent says further steps toward the full nazifieatiou of Austria include the dissolution of all Free Masons' Lodges. The material confiscated will be examined and later exhibited. Inquiries are arriving at Vienna from private British sources regarding conditions under which Jewish Austrians may leave the country and join their friends in Britain. The position is that while there is no embargo on the departure of Jews it is stipulated that they must not take more than 20 Austrian schillings. This renders them destitute and neighbouring countries refuse to admit them. Dr. Sigmund Freud the Austrian psychologist, is seriously ill. The Hungarian Government has become the first to extend de facto recognition to the extended German Empire by intimating its decision to change its embassy in Vienna into a consulate, says the Berlin correspondent of The Times. This information was conveyed to the German Foreign Office by the Hungarian Minister, who offered the warmest congratulations to Herr Hitler on the re-union of the German nation.