POLISH JEWS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 October 1938, Page 5

POLISH JEWS

DEPORTATION FROM GERMANY

TRAIN-LOADS HELD UP AT FRONTIER

WITHOUT FOOD AND SHIVERING-

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, WARSAW, October 29.

No agreement has been reached regarding fhe German deportation of Polish Jews. It is officially announced that mutual measures for deportation have been suspended. The negotiations will be resumed in Warsaw next week.

Only a few Jews with valid passports crossed the border. Trainloads, are waiting in a no-man’s land formed in the few yards separating the frontier posts. Other trains are banked up just beyond the frontier.

A cablegram from London on Saturday read: — The Berlin correspondent of “The Times” says that the extent of the expulsion of Polish Jews from Germany and Austria is not yet certain. The Polish Embassy characterises as premature a report that Germany has cancelled their deportation. In the meantime the round-up continues. The position seems to be that if Poland ensures that. the persons concerned will not lose their citizenship in Germany the deportation orders will be rescinded; The ostensible reason for the expulsions, which it is said are not due to mere anti-Semitism, is that Germany fears that a number of underisable Polish Jews would not receive visas from Poland to enable them to re-enter that country, and that therefore they might become a burden on the Reich. Seven hundred Jews have been imprisoned in Munich pending a decision. Berlin police escorted to the frontier in trains (many in cattle trucks) 4000 Jews from various towns' where they were collected in vans. The victims were allowed to retain.only 10s apiece. Many women and children, though not compelled to accompany them, decided to do so.