BRITISH REFUGE FOR CHILDREN

Southland Times, Issue 23677, 28 November 1938, Page 5

BRITISH REFUGE FOR CHILDREN

CAMPS FOR YOUNG JEWISH EXILES

NAZIS ARRANGE TOURS OF BURNED SYNAGOGUES

(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received November 27, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, November 26. Six hundred Jewish and non-Aryan ( Christian children from Germany who will probably come to England shortly will be housed at a holiday camp on the east coast, as forerunners of the 50,000 for whom Viscount Samuel and Earl Selborne are making an appeal. Area committees will be constituted wherever residents will take children in their homes or provide for their c care. The children will be returned I j to their parents immediately the latter ( have left Germany and can support ( them. s The police in the principal German , cities are arranging conducted tours of . the burned synagogues for the benefit of the Winter Help Fund. Visitors | , are occasionally permitted to don rab- j binical robes in a burlesque of religious ( observances. The German Ministry of Economics ■ is opening an office where Jews can sell jewels and objects of art. The Chamber of Commerce is supervising ; this, anticipating that the Jews, must . sell their possessions to defray instal- ( ments of the indemnity, which must be cash unless security is given. The Jews must defray the cost of liquida- < tion of their businesses, creditors of . which must be paid before stocks are offered by retail organizations. APPEAL TO U.S.A. The Jews in Paris are making an appeal to the President of the United. States (Mr Franklin D. Roosevelt) to induce the South American republics to help to solve the refugee problem. The French Foreign Minister (M. Georges Bonnet) is understood to have offered to receive 10,000 refugees if Britain and the United States do likewise. . The Red Cross League is investigating the possibilities of assistance. | One hundred and eighty-four Jews from the Buchenwald prison camp have arrived at Shanghai, making the total 500. They had only hand baggage, as the German frontier officials confiscated all their heavy baggage. The refugees are at present a great problem to Shanghai, which is already overburdened with misery and destitution. Lord Samuel and Lord Selborne, who are joint chairmen of the British committee for the care of children from Germany, have issued a statement appealing for children to be boarded in private homes in Britain. The case is very urgent, they state, and under proper guarantees at least 50,000 children must be brought out of Germany immediately. Offers of assistance from churches, Jewish communities and other groups are invited. In the debate on Palestine in the House of Commons Mr Winston Churchill (Conservative) proposed that the immigration of Jews be fixed over a period of 1C years at a figure, which, at the end of the period would leave the present balance of the Arab and Jewish population practically unaltered. He relieved this policy would permit from 30,000 to 35,000 Jewish immigrants if the forecasts of the population were correct. . Earl Winterton, replying on behalf of the Government, said that any agreement reached at the conference would be submitted for Parliament’s approval. Mr Churchill’s plan would be discussed at the conference with others. The Jews have been informed that they must pay in cash the first 25 per cent of the fine by December 15. “Aryan” experts are fixing the prices the Chamber of Commerce will pay for jewellery and works of art. ANTI-SEMITISM IN SOUTH AFRICA ; PROVOCATIVE PAMPHLETS DISTRIBUTED r J (Received November 27, 6.30 p.m.) JOHANNESBURG, November 26. » The synagogue at Benoni was dyna--1 mited and partly destroyed. The out--1 rage was accompanied by demonstra- • tions against the Jews. The Mayor, of Benoni was not invited to the laying - of a foundation stone at Voortkrekker. J Several rioters were fined. t A message from Cape Town states 1 that the Government is determined to . crush the anti-Semitic outburst, which was deliberately planned by the distribution of provocative pamphlets. CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN SLOVAKIA (Received November 27, 6.30 p.m.) PRAGUE, November 26. - The Slovak Government is preparing o concentration camps in which Jews, / socialists and other “unreliables” will ? be confined. The Jewish Party has been 1 dissolved.