JEWS LAND AT CROYDON

Southland Times, Issue 23781, 31 March 1939, Page 7

JEWS LAND AT CROYDON

INFLUX FROM ALL OVER EUROPE NO MONEY, NO FRIENDS AND INADEQUATE PAPERS (United Press Assn. —Telegraph Copyright) (Independent Cable Service) (Received March 30, 11.50 p.m.) LONDON, March 30. Four hundred Jewish refugees from all parts of Europe arrived by air at Croydon yesterday. Many will be sent back as they have no money, no friends and inadequate papers. One man from Cologne dropped on his knees and pleaded to be allowed to stay. He said he would be shot if he returned. Of 13 in an aeroplane from Warsaw only one man was granted permission to stay. He had crawled 18 miles through snow from Moravia to Poland. The immigration officials said the influx was a mystery. The executive of the World Jewish Congress at Geneva has sent a telegram to the President of the United States and the Foreign Ministers of Britain, France and Russia drawing attention to the “unspeakable martyrdom which the Jews in Czechoslovakia have been suffering since the German occupation, in violation of international treaties guaranteeing equality of rights for all Czech citizens.” It is understood that anti-Jewish legislation is being prepared in Slovakia to apply to those not baptized before October 6, 1938. Others are considered Aryans. A decree permits' only lawyers resident in Slovakia before October 31, 1938, to practise, at which the German Party protested on the grounds that half its members were thereby unqualified.