MANY ARRESTS
IN VIENNA AND BERLIN MYSTERIOUS ATTENDANT CIRCUMSTANCES LARGE PROPORTION OF JEWS INCLUDED LONDON, June 1. Mystery surrounds . a large number of arrests in Berlin and Vienna of persons allegedly engaged in smuggling opium and foreign currency, but it is significant that out of 339 arrests in Berlin 317 are Jews. The police raided two restaurants yesterday and arrested 76 persons, whom they state are criminals. Others are political suspects and others foreigners with defective passports. The arrests in Vienna in the past few . days are believed to number 2000. They include Jews and Ayrans in many spheres, most of whom are accused of breaches of the currency laws. Others are allegedly Communists and are accused of conspiring against the State.
It is reported that more than 100 Jewish doctors have been recently arrested, mainly on charges of performing illegal operations.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1938, Page 7
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