HOPEFUL OUTLOOK FOR REFUGEES

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 155, 27 March 1939, Page 9

HOPEFUL OUTLOOK FOR REFUGEES

Nazi Plan For Orderly Migration

TALKS NOT TO BE INTERRUPTED

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received March 26, 6.30 p.m.) RUGBY, March 25. Conversations which recently took place in Berlin between Mr. George .Rublee, the representative of the International Refugee Committee, and the German officials were referred to in a speech by Earl Winterton, chairman of the refugee committee.

He said that a statement on the emigration of refugees from Germany offered so much hope that it would be possible to continue the conversations. The talks would not be ended by the deplorable events of the last fortnight. Though he was not at liberty to give full details, it could be said that the statement contemplates an orderly migration spread over five years of 150,060 able-bodied and 500,000 dependent non-Aryans in Germany. The statement, he added, suggested the reasonable treatment of persons awaiting emigration in Germany and an absence of molestation of the old and infirm.

Yesterday the Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, told the House of Commons that 4325 male and 3310 female German refugees of more than 18 years of age were admitted to Britain during the five years ended March, 1938, and that 2058 subsequently left. Between last March and October, 4500 from Germany and Austria were admitted, and 529 had since left. In the last four months, ending in February, 5667 from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia arrived, and 566 left. In addition to these, 1404 refugee children from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia were admitted.

The Colonial Office announces that a commission, including Sir Janies Dunnett, is to fly to North Rhodesia under the auspices of the emigration planning joint committee of the refugees co-ordinating committee. The commission will be associated with a North Rhodesian committee under the Director of Agriculture.