TO WIPE OUT JEWS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 38, 16 February 1943, Page 5

TO WIPE OUT JEWS

LATEST GERMAN MOVE (Recd. 6.30 p.m.) Rugby, Feb. 14. The German authorities have issued new orders to speed up and intensify the extermination by mass massacre and starvation of the Jews remaining in Occupied Europe, according to direct reports from Central Europe just received in London by the British section of the World Jewish Congress.

They have ordered that by March 31 the “protectorate” of Bohemia and Moravia is to be cleared of Jews and at the same time no Jew is to be left in Berlin.

The older, virtually sentencing the Jews in Bohemia and Moravia 'to death by starvation, was published in the official Gazette of the Protectorate on December 1. Under the decree local authorities will order the withdrawal from the Jews of cards for rationed foodstuffs. Under the existing anti-Jewish regulations, which apply also to Germany and Austria, Jews are forbidden to btjy unrationed foodstuffs such as fisn, poultry and vegetables. At the same time the deportations of Jews from Germany are continuing at a rapid rate and special Gestapo agents have arrived in Berlin and also Holland from Vienna, where the deportation of Jews has almost been completed, to speed up the expulsions.—B.O.W. (Recd. 11.5 p.m.) London. Feb. 14. Twenty-one members of the Berlin Jewish Community Council, arrested as hostages on November 9, have disappeared. Eight of them had already been shot because some Jews escaped from the deportation barracks. Not a single Jew is left in the Warsaw ghetto, where originally there were 430,000. The remnants of the Jews of Poland were confined in 55 ghettos spread over the country.