TREATMENT OF JEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1933, Page 5

TREATMENT OF JEWS

REPORTS DENIED

BY GERMAN CONSUL IN N.Z.

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WELLINGTON, April 4. Reference t» what h e described as untrue and grossly exaggerated reports was made by the German consul, Mr W. Penseler, in ,a statement.

u He said that Cptain Goering ;t-, a ,d t assured press reporters that the Jews f were not discriminated against, or their liberty interfered with, in Gcr--3 many, where hundreds. of thousands of Jews were Jiving peacefully, and Jew--3 iish firms and stores carried on unhin. - dcreel. This had hfien confirmed by 1 the. central .association of Germ n 1 citizens of the Jewish faith, embracing t a» large percentage of the Jewish resit dents in Germany. In a statement published on March 25, this association had denounced the reports of atrocities as lies, the originators of which it strongly condemned. . “Further proof of the falsity of the reports,” Mr Pense’.er said, “i s the continued rise in shares in the Berlin ■ Exchange, many of which have record figures. Jewish interests, which ate largely represented jn Exchange transactions, would certainly not display such unbounded confidence in 'the sta* - bility of the German internal position, were there any truth in th e allegations.” BOYCOTT IS NOW -OVER. ANTI-SEMITISM CONTINUES. BERLIN, April 4. Nearly every trace of a boycott has disappeared. It is unlikely t 0 be resumed. Meanwhile, anti-Semitism is unabated in Germany. Wholesale dismissals of Jews continue. The Nazis are now attempting to Christianise the Bourse by forcing the Jews to resign from it. The Berlin boxing .association have prohibited Jews from participation in the fights. They have cancelled Jewish managers’ contracts, and have algo suspended foreign managers. N.Z. MINISTERS’ PROTEST. WELLINGTON, April 4. 'The following resolution was passed by the Wellington Ministers’ Association yesterday; “We express our horror in relation to persecutions to which Jews are being subjected in G er - 1 many, and put 0 n record our sympathy with them in the s e persecutions. We assure th e Jewish citizens of this coin- 1 fiiunity of our prayers and sympathy, 1 FRENCH JEWS’ REPRISALS, PARIS, April 3. The four chief Jewish organisations ] in France have telegraphed to Hitler, renouncing that they are continuing ail the financial and economic reprisals, until Germany allows Jew. s the ; normal facilities of lif e and citizen- c ship. { ' c TWO BRITISHERS ARRESTED. ( (Received this dav at 9.40 a.m. ) BERLIN, April 4. ] The Nazis arrested, the journalist, Geoffrey Fraser, a British subject, and , an alleged Communist, in bed, and conveyed him to an unknown destination. \ The police also gaoled the Britisher, , R. C. Catchpole, international secretary of the Society of Friends. | The British Embassy is investigating, j