AUSTRIAN JEWS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 121, 21 April 1938, Page 9

AUSTRIAN JEWS

UNCERTAIN FATE. STORM TROOP ACTIVITY. THE DANUBE INCIDENT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copy)'glit.) Received April 21, 11.25 p.m. LONDON, April 20. The Daily Telegraph’s Prague correspondent says a Frenclr Danube tug, with Hungarian permission, rescued the Austrian Jews who had been marooned on a breakwater in the middle of the Danube. The Jewish community of Bratislava immediately sent blankets, food, and other comforts.

The (refugees remain on the tug pending an international agreement regarding their future. Meanwhile Nazi Storm Troops again arrested twenty-five other Jews, originally members of the party and lodged them in an improvised prison at Kitt-see, where the villagers protested against their ill-treatmennt. The Nazis removed them to an unknown destination.

Ir was reported yesterday that, hearing cries from a mid-river oreaxwater in the Danube, the citizens of Theben found an aged Rabbi and fifty-one Austria:. Jews, of all ages and both sexes, who disclosed that Storm Troopers had expelled them from Austria despite their longstanding citizenship and dumped (hem without food or overcoats on the breakwater. The Czechs fed and housed them, but the authorities declined to harbour them, for which reason they were pushed across the Hungarian frontier, only to be refused reInge. They were thus homeless, as the Nazis would not allow them to return to Austria.