BOYCOTT OF JEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21454, 30 March 1933, Page 9

BOYCOTT OF JEWS

NAZI DECISION COMMENCING ON APRIL 1 INTENSIVE CAMPAIGN BROADCAST APPEAL COERCING NEWSPAPERS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received March 29. 7.5 n.rri.) BERLIN. March 28 Ten thousand mass meetings will be held throughout Germany to inaugurate tho boycott against tho Jews. Arrangements for tho meetings arc being made at the Nazi headquarters at Munich. Tho following message will bo broadcast:—"From prince to jjeasant, do not buy from Jewish shops." The boycott will commence on April 1. Relatives and friends abroad will be urged to write, telegraph and telephone denials of tho alleged propaganda charging Nazis with atrocities A Nazi communique states that the campaign is merely a defensive measure against lies published abroad. In every town and village committees have been instructed to ensure that only tho guilty shall suffer, and to see that personal freedom for all foreigners is assured, irrespective of religion. Newspapers failing to join tho campaign will bo boycotted. Storm troops stopped the trade in Jewish shops in Glewitz, Glogau and elsewhere. Jewish stall-holders at the Bitterfeld fair wero expelled from tho town. Food departments and multiple stores at Nuremberg have been closed. Nazis at Brunswick arrested 200 Stalhelms and 1150 Republicans, Socialists and Communists. They charged them with plotting a counter-revolution and confined them all night in a large building guarded by armed storm troops. Herr Schrader, the local Steel Helmets' leader, was Arrested. A decree has been issued banning all Communists from holding seats on municipal councils in Prussia, where some secured a majority at the last election. Herr Seldte, a leader of the Steel Helmets, and Minister of Labour in the Hitler Cabinet, conferred with Captain Goering, Controller of the Prussian Police, and sharply protested against events in Brunswick. Herr von Papen, Vice-Chancellor, and Dr. Hugenberg, Minister of Commerce and Agriculture, are likely to support the protest. This will necessitate President von Hindenburg intervening to prevent a disruption in tho Government. In the meantime tho authorities are embarrassed as to what they shall do with 1350 prisoners. It is officially stated in Berlin that the trouble which occurred in Brunswick is a purely local affair and will not impede the co-operation throughout the country between the Nazis and Nationalists. The Steel Helmets deny any anti-Government conspiracy. The Reichsbanner and the Socialist papers throughout Prussia, which wero due to reappear to-day, have now been prohibited indefinitely.

PLAN IN OPERATION SOME DISTRICTS BEGIN PICKETING JEWISH SHOPS (Received March 29. 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 28 The Berlin correspondent of the Times says the Jewish boycott is already widely operating in Upper Silesia and the Ruhr. Storm troops are picketing all Jewish shops, while all Jewish business houses at Schwerin have been forced to close. The proprietors were compelled to pay their employees two months' wages. REASSURING REPLIES BRITISH JEWS IN GERMANY FOREIGN MINISTER'S INQUIRY British Wireless RUGBY, March 28 Asked in the House of Commons whether he had made representations to the German Government regarding the safety of British Jews in Germany, the Foreign Minister, Sir John Simon, said: "Although I am not aware of any actual case of arrest or ill-treatment of Jewish British subjects, the British Ambassador at Berlin on my instruction spoke to the German Minister for Foreign Affairs on this question about three weeks ago. I also took the opportunity of mentioning the matter myself last week to tho German Ambassador in London. In both cases the replies were of a reassuring nature."