AID TO REFUGEES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19803, 3 December 1938, Page 9

AID TO REFUGEES

JEWS FROM EUROPE CO-ORDINATING EFFORTS MANY OFFERS MADE HOMES FOR CHILDREN (Eire. Tel. Copyright —United Press Assn.) (Reed. Dec. 2, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 1. Following the Palestine offer to absorb 10,000 child refugees, a census is being taken in the all-Jewish city of Telaviv of the available homes, over 1000 of which already have registered. It is expected that homes will be ready throughout Palestine within a week. The North Rhodesian Parliament has agreed to admit refugees. The Dutch Prime Minister, Dr. Colijn, has suggested a collection throughout Holland for refugees, of whom 4000 already have entered and hundreds are still crossing the frontier.

Three hundred children left Germany for Harwich, where they will camp until they can be absorbed into charitable homes. The first attempt to co-ordinate suggestions for assisting the emigration of German Jews will be made on December 2 at a meeting of the vice-chairman’s committee established by the Evian Conference. Albert Hall Pledge

Eight thousand people at a meeting in the Albert Hall pledged support for every legitimate form of action to alleviate the sufferings of the victims of religious racial persecution in Germany.

A Berlin message states that 7000 Jews have been released from the Buchenwald camp in the last few days and are being replaced by antiNazis from Sudetenland. The Times, in an editorial, describes Australia’s contribution to the solution of the refugee problem as characteristically generous. It says that the Commonwealth has certainly done her full share, “A great part of the Australian territory is uninhabitable and the chief cities are crowded,” continues The Times. “The immigrants are unlikely to be acquainted with agriculture and stock raising. “It is hoped that others within and without the Empire will follow Australia’s example,” concludes The Times.