NAZIS ROB JEWS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 164, 29 July 1937, Page 5

NAZIS ROB JEWS

Fur Dealer's SuSerings Rev'elations concerning tha VnJie ia. passports and the nufferings ef a j>«rsecuted Russian. Jew were made at Lyndon Sessions. The chairman, Mr Eustaee Fattea, quashed the Bow street eonvietiom oi Nathan Chajutin, aged 33, fur dealer, , who had been flned £4Q and ordered to be deported for having au altered pats'port in his possession. Mr St. John Hntchinson, K.C., aaid Chajutin went to Germany and was given a passport issued by the League of Narions to Russiana who could not support the Bolsfievist regime. Wfien thp Nazis came ' into pOwtr Chajutin was persacuted, and he tried tp assujne tfie nationality of Paragnay, Costa Rica and Hungary. He was told tfiat he wonld have to reside in Paraquay for a year, "He paid 1,500 marks for land in Cqsta Rica, said Mr Hutcfiinsoa, "biit found tfie Consnl-General was a rogue and fiad bpen taking money by f»ls6 pretences from a lot of people." Chajutin gave up fiis League passport to tfie German authorities and had to deposit £10,000 to show he was not going to leave tfie country. "Tfien tfie Nazis redoubled the persecution," added Mr Hutofiinson, "and he was faced with going through *bsolute fiell or losing fiis money. left, and Germany kept his £10,000." Chajutin then paid about £150 ti a Mr Caraeo for a Hungarian pasppqpt, Witfi tfiis passport fie travpjled ti Jugoslavia witfiont being cfiallengadi Later, from Paris, fie negotiated yrith Caracp for a renewal pf tbe passpOft and eame fo England. A police offiepr called toi s«e hif passport, took it away, and it whf pfiotograpfiicaUy disclosed that thi passport fiad been altered.