JEWISH FAMILIES’ AGONY

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 265, 7 August 1942, Page 5

JEWISH FAMILIES’ AGONY

Barbarism In Paris FRIGHTFUL SCENES REPORTED (Received August 6, 7 p.m.) (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. Copyright-) LONDON, August 5. A pogrom equal to any’ carried out in Germany has been launched against the Jews in Baris, reports the Swiss newspaper “Oberner Tagblatt. Women are hurling themselves from windows with their children rattier than fall into the hands of the police and Gestapo, and French people are hiding whole Jewish families in cellars. Hundreds of women and children have been taken into custody, and the men are believed to have been forced to join slave labour battalions in Germany. ; , A message from Madrid states that according to a report from Faris 3t French hostages will be shot for the dynamiting of a train travelling to Cherbourg carrying supplies and relief crews ’for U-boats. The dynamiting occurred in spite of the fact that the Germans had put 40 Frenchmen on the train, of whom 10 were killed and 30 injured. Ten German soldiers were also killed. Vichy’s envoy in Paris, Count de. Brinon, told the French people today that a second front was impossible. He added that Vichy was ready to take action if what he described as “great events” took place. M. Laval would soon be making a statement. Laval has just got back to Vichy after conferring with the Germans at Paris. A foreign correspondent reports that German troops on the Channel coast have carried out anti-invasion exercises. T , ... A Vichy report says that Jewish children who were arrested in a big German round-up of Jews in Paris are reported to be undergoing sterilization. Seven famous French professors are among a number of intellectuals who were arrested in a new round-up of university quarters in Paris.