SYMPATHY FOR JEW

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23707, 14 January 1939, Page 17

SYMPATHY FOR JEW

“HOUNDED FROM NATIVE LAND” (From Our Own Correspondent) (By Air Mail) LONDON, Dec. 21. Mr Herbert Metcalfe, the Old street magistrate, said that he proposed to be as lenient as he could with a Stateless Jew who fled from Austria faced with the prospect of a concentration camp. The man was undoubtedly of first class antecedents and respectability who had been hounded from his natvie land —a most dreadful business. There would be a formal recommendation for deportation, and the man, who would be on bail, would report to the Aliens Department in a month’s time or when required. Before the court was Josef Breier, 34, a buyer, of no fixed abode, charged on remand that, being an alien of uncertain nationality, he was found in the United Kingdom, having landed without leave of an immigration officer. Police Constable Lawrence said that Breier's wife and son, aged 11, were in this country, the wife on a Ministry of Labour permit. Mr Maurice Abrahams, defending said that Breier was living in Vienna separated from his wife and child, when his shop—his only means of livelihood, was taken from him without compensation. In October there was a round-up of Polish and Stateless Jews, and, faced with the prospect of a concentration camp, Breier fled to Hamburg. where he hid. eventually coming to this country after suffering severe privation. He had a brother in America, and there was every likelihood of Breier being able to emigrate there. •