AUSTRIAN JEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23021, 26 April 1938, Page 11

AUSTRIAN JEWS

ORGANISED BOYCOTT INDIGNITIES SUFFERED PROPERTIES CONFISCATED BARON FOUND DEAD By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received April 25, 5.5 p.m.) VIENNA, April 24 Storm Troopers to-day. began the first organised boycott of the Jews, who were forced to stand outside their shops holding placards: "Do not buy from Jews." Customers buying were also placarded. The Government has confiscated the estates I of Baron Alfons Rothschild, head of the banking family, Herr Mandl, a leading munitions manufacturer, and Baroness Valentine Springer, a relative cf the Rothschilds. Herr Mandl and the Baroness have left the country. Baron Wilhelm von Ketteler has been found dead near Vienna and it is believed he committed, suicide. He was honorary attache at the German Legation and private secretary to Herr von Papen. The baron was last seen aiive at midnight on March 13. He is known to have had personal enemies in Nazi circles. ,^4 HERR VON PAPEN RETURN FROM THE SAAR RETIREMENT RUMOURED (Received April 25, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, April 2'4 The German Ambassador to Austria, Herr von Papen, who was reported recently to have been transferred to Turkey, has arrived in Berlin from the Saar. It is rumoured that he is from public life on the grounds of ill-health. JEWESS DIVORCEDAUSTRIAN HUSBAND "INVINCIBLE AVERSION * VIENNA, April 13 The first divorce on racial grounds since Germany and Austria united was granted in a Vienna Court to-day. _lt will be followed by many others. The petitioner was a director of a big Vienna business. He joined the Nazi Party and sought a 'divorce from his Jewish wife, to whom he had been married 17 years, on the ground that an "invincible aversion" prevented him from living with her any longer. The Court, in summing up, declared that a member of a party of which : anti-Semitism was one of the keypoints could not be expected .to live harmoniously with his Jewish wife.