JEWS ARRESTED IN BERLIN

Southland Times, Issue 23538, 18 June 1938, Page 7

JEWS ARRESTED IN BERLIN

New Drive Begun By

Nazis

VICTIMS ASSAULTED IN STREETS TRADERS EXPELLED FROM PUBLIC MARKETS (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received June 17, 11.5 p.m.) BERLIN, June 17. Hundreds of Jews were arrested during the night, coinciding with the intensification of anti-Jewish measures. Demonstrators man-handled Jews in the streets, dragged them from their shops and punched them. Dozens were jammed like sardines in “Black Marias” and driven off to police stations while the crowds jeered, cursed and shouted “Jews die like dogs.” Those arrested include women and young children.

A new decree prohibits Jews from running racehorses. The final elimination of the Jews from Germany’s economic and social life is apparently the object of the new antiJewish drive, according to the Berlin correspondent of The Daily Telegraph, states a message from London. The Minister of the Interior (Dr Frick) has been empowered to draw up a register of all Jewish shops and businesses, which in future will be marked with a distinctive plate. This will be followed by more stringent regulations to prevent Aryans from buying in Jewish shops and trading with Jewish firms. Jewish traders have already been expelled from the public markets.

Cinema proprietors in the west end of Berlin have been ordered to cease selling tickets to Jews. Nazi storm troopers raided several cinemas last night and ordered Jews to leave.

BARON DE ROTHSCHILD STILL A PRISONER

NAZIS DEMAND RANSOM OF £2,000,000

(Received June 17, 5.5 p.m.)

LONDON, June 17. The Daily Herald says the Nazis, who are still keeping prisoner Baron Louis de Rothschild, have advised the Rothschilds that the baron’s fate depends upon their willingness to purchase his freedom at £2,000,000.