DEPORTATION OF JEWS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 25 October 1941, Page 5

DEPORTATION OF JEWS

NEW NAZI DECISION REPORTED NUMBERS BEING SENT TO THE EAST London, Oct. 23 The Polish Telegraph Agency says that German plans provide for (he deportation of 70,000 Jews from Germany before Ist November. and Germany intends before the end of the year to deport 196,000 of the 240,000 Jews who remain in Germany and the Czech protectorate. The majority are

being: sent to the j,N' Uos in Poland and the Ukraine. Only Jews over 80. and also those who served with distinction in the last war and young men capable of working in the German Labour Front, will be allowed tu remain in Gei many. The first group of Jews has already been sent to Lodz. Poland, and a second j group is going to Warsaw, where the ghetto will reportedly contain GOO.OOO. I Others are going to Lublin. The Polish Telegraph Agency says j that five Poles, who were accused of sabotage of a goods train carrying supplies between Berlin and Warsaw have been executed after u trial by a German tribunal. Recent acts of sabotage are stated to have cost the Germans several hundred thousand marks. Eight other Poles were recently sentenced tu death for insubordination. The agency adds that a group of Polish partisans in central Poland seized LO.OOO zlotys from the cashier o. a German military office and injured a German policeman who interfered. — U.P.A.