PERSECUTION OF JEWS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 June 1938, Page 7

PERSECUTION OF JEWS

HUNDREDS OF ARRESTS MADE IN BERLIN MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN SEIZED PACKED INTO “BLACK MARIAS" By Telegraph.—Press Association. Copyright. BERLIN. June 17. Hundreds of Jews were arrested during the night, coinciding with the intensication of anti-Jewish measures. Demonstrators manhandled Jews in the streets, dragged them from their shops and punched them. Dozens were jammed like sardines in “Black Marias” and driven off to police stations while crowds jeered, cursed, and shouted: “Jews die like dogs.” Those arrested include women and young children. A new decree prohibits Jews from running racehorses. FINAL ELIMINATION THE DECLARED NAZI AIM LONDON, June 17. Final elimination of Jews from Germany’s economic and social life is apparently the object of the new antiJewish drive, reports the Berlin correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph.” The Minister of the Interior has been empowered to draw up a register of all Jewish shops and businesses, which in future will be marked with distinctive plate. This will be followed by more stringent regulations to prevent Aryans from buying in Jewish shops and trading with Jewish firms. Jewish traders have already been expelled from the public markets. Cinema proprietors in the west end of Berlin have been ordered to cease selling tickets to Jews. Nazi Storm troopers raided several cinemas last night and ordered Jews to leave.