JEWS IN POLAND

Evening Star, Issue 23380, 25 September 1939, Page 7

JEWS IN POLAND

j CRUEL REPRISALS BY NAZIS HUNDREDS EXECUTED IN LODZ ALONE BRUSSELS, September 24. (Received September 25, at 10.35 a.m.) The Gestapo is taking most cruel reprisals against Jews in Poland, according to the Bucharest correspondent of the ' Indopendance Belgo.' Thousands of Jews have been arrested and hundreds executed in Lodz alone. Tho Germans are especially irritated by the Jews' heroism, to which Marshal Smigly-Rydz paid tribute.

PALESTINE JEWS RALLYING TO BRITAIN LONDON, September 24(Received September 25, at noon.) The Jerusalem correspondent of the Associated News states that over 25 per cent of the Palestine Jewish population has registered for emergency service, either at homo or overseas. This embraces 135,000 men and women, including 100,000 men of military age, j representing 85 per cent, of those eligible. Several divisions are already in training. -» GERMAM GENERAL KILLED IN ACTION IN POLAND HITLER ORDERS STATE FUNERAL LONDON, September 23. The Budapest correspondent of the Associated Press of America states that General" von Fritsch was killed in action on the Warsaw front. Hitler has ordered a State funeral. Hitler removed 1 him from the command of the German Army in February, 1938, during the spectacular reshuffle designed to tighten the Nazi grip on the army. General von Fritsch represented the best type of traditional army man. He was rehabilitated last June and given command of an artillery regiment in recognition of his services in reconstructing the Nazi army.

GENERAL VON FRITSCH was e£ in disgrace? LONDON, September 24. (Received September 25, at noon.) The Danish papers’ Berlin correspondents are speculating whether General von Fritseh was in disgrace. It is pointed out that the scantiest news was published in the German papers as to what General von Fritseh was doing when he was killed. At the time of his death he was eolonel-iii-chicf of the Twelfth Artillery Regiment. The German papers published the briefest obituaries.