NAZI ATTACKS ON JEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19451, 28 March 1933, Page 7

NAZI ATTACKS ON JEWS

EMPHATIC PROTESTS IN LONDON

HITLER REPUDIATES REPORTS United Press Association —By Electric '"elegra»iY—Copyright (Received March 27, 8.30 p.m.) j LONDON, March 27. The Berlin correspondent of the “Daily Mail’’ says: Herr Hitler has authorised a close colleague, Hans Staegel, to say that all reports of mishandling of Jews are barefaced lies. Hans Staegel. speaking personally, adds: The Jews abused their political, moral and financial power, and failed to protect the people from atheism and marxism. Prompt Reprisals. Unknown persons demolished the contents and dwellings of two members of the German Cabinet. EFFECT OF NAZI POLICY. DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST WILL NOT RETURN. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 27, 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 26. "I cannot return home, the conditions are too terrible,” so Dr. Einstein told a representative of “The News Chronicle” at Southampton. “I cannot return home, while the freedom of the world and opinion is abolished. Even though hot free, I am ready to believe that the Jewish persecution has not official sanction, but Herr Hitler was anti-semitic before his selection.” Dr. Einstein added: “I will live in a little villa on the outskirts of Antwerp. Fascism and all it implies is foreign to my creed.”

BRITISH PROTESTS. ALARMING ATROCITIES ALLEGED. ‘United Press Association—By Electric Tel egtaph—Copyright LONDON, March 26. While motor cars bearing slogans urging a boycott traversed the neighbourhood, the Jewish Board of Deputies, under the chairmanship of Mr Neville Laski, for three hours in camera, discussed the situation of coreligionists in Germany. They announced that the Board would neither participate in nor prevent boycotts, but take steps, including an early meeting to secure equality of citizenship in Germany. “The Sunday Times” says the Jewish leaders will approach the Foreign Office to suggest diplomatic representations to Germany for more tolerant treatment.

The Jewish Telegraph Agency circulates an eye witness’ account by a leading German industrialist declaring that systematic persecution continues. The Jews are still hiding in the woods at night time, and taking refuge with non-Jewish friends. He alleges that the Nazis subjected Jews to dastardly tortures. Some were forced to run the gauntlet between rows of tropps who lashed them with metal tipped whips. Others were buried in the ground, only their heads being visible.