PERSECUTION OF JEWS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 264, 5 October 1940, Page 7

PERSECUTION OF JEWS

ENFORCEMENT IN FRANCE. LONDON, Oct. L Tho Times’s correspondent on tho French frontier says that, independently of Arichy’s persecution of Jews, German-occupied France is promulgating its own anti-Semitic laws. Germans have ordered the immediate registration of Jews. Rabbis are ordered to supply complete lists of their congregations. Jews who fled to the unoccupied zone are not allowed to return. Those not registering are liable to confiscation of property. A decree compels Jewish shopkeepers to affix a notice to their windows: “I am a Jew.” The Vichy Government announces that an undisclosed number of persons, including M. Leon Jouhaux (Secretarv-General of the Confederation of Labour), have been arrested tor attempting to undermine the Administration. Undisclosed charges have been lodged against Marshal Gamelin, M. Daladier and M. La Chambre, who will shortly be arraigned before the Supreme Court at Riom. The Court, already sitting in camera, has heard 53 witnesses in other cases in the last few days, including those of AI. Bonnet, General AVeygand, General Mittelhauser, and M. Frossard. The Government spokesman accuses Marshal Gamelin of plunging Franco into war while the country was not prepared. The Swiss radio says M. Chautemps and the French Consul at Casablanca and 16 other French refugees -h aye arrived at a Portuguese port after a stormy voyage of seven days.