DENIED A HOME

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1938, Page 2

DENIED A HOME

AUSTRIAN JEWS IN DESPERATE PLIGHT NAZIS TELL THEM "DANUBE IS DEEP.” MEASURES OF PERSECUTION IN ITALY. By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. LONDON, September 8. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Vienna correspondent says “the Danube is deep,” Nazi officials frequently retort to desperate Jews petitioning to know whether they are allowed to go. Now that evictions are reaching a climax, many thousands are being forced from their flats and are only permitted to reside in a district where the Emperor Leopold created a second ghetto in the seventeenth century. This district is already overcrowded. Sixty thousand Jews have gone abroad and there are still 200,000 anxious to leave. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Rome correspondent says the anxiety of Italian Jews is increasing. Many concerns are at a standstill after an announcement that the Fascist Grand Council will decide their fate on October 1. The publication of the names of alleged Jewish professors in the universities has aroused a storm, twenty-one declaring themselves Aryans and demanding compensation from the newspapers.