LAND OF DESPAIR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 November 1938, Page 5

LAND OF DESPAIR

DISCONTENT IN GERMANY

ENTHUSIASM ON SURFACE.

'hope OF OVERTHROWING HITLER LESSENED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, November 14. Expecting that the Nazis will now increasingly persecute the Confessional Church, the “Manchester Guardian’s” diplomatic correspondent says he believes internal reasons, also contributory to the nogroms, are adding to the malaise existing in Germany before the Hitlerian triumph of Munich, which, though somewhat allayed by relief at the absence of war, is again deep and widespread. Even the conquest of Sudetenland has made little impression on the majority in Germany, which is a land of profound despair under the surface of enthusiasm, which, however, is genuine so far as it goes. Herr Hitler’s triumph has not strengthened his hold on the Germans positively but has done so negatively as the hope of his overthrow has appreciably dwindled. The Gestapo is aware of the general discontent. HITLER TO SPEAK AT DR VON RATH’S FUNERAL. ATTITUDE OF THE PEOPLE TOWARDS POGROMS BERLIN, November 14. Herr Hitler will address the nation during the interment of Dr von Rath in Dusseldorf on November 17. It will be the most impressive State funeral since General Ludendorff’s. Reuter’s correspondent declares that the attitude of the man in the street toward the pogroms is one of shocked amazement. Few are in complete agreement with the persecution, and even Nazis have confessed it is most distasteful. DEMANDS ON JEWS PAYMENT FOR DAMAGE DONE t BY NAZIS. (Received This Day, 10 a.m.) BERLIN, November 14. At a meeting on Sunday, convened under, official orders, 160 wealthy Jews were told that the sum they would have to pay for’window-smashing by the Nazis must be paid today, A rich widow’s liability was assessed at £4200 and a manufacturer’s at £12,500. Universities have been ordered to ban Jews from all lectures. SECURITIES SEIZED. CRITICS OF POGROM GAOLED. (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, November 14. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Berlin correspondent says all Jewish-owned securities, worth £.15,000,000, have already been confiscated. Jewish social institutions, for instance homes for the aged, face ruin. They have received demands for arrears of taxation, amounting to £5OOO, representing nonpayment since 1929, when the preNazi Governments excused them. The prisons contain ■ 300 persons arrested for publicly condemning the pogrom. TOO MUCH SELLING SLUMP ON THE BERLIN BOURSE. (Received This 'Day, 9.45 a.m.) BERLIN, November 15. The Bourse slumped badly, losing four more points. This was largely due to Jews selling securities and Aryans, anxious to buy Jewish businesses, also selling stocks freely. MEASURES OF CONTROL. (Received This Day, 10 a.m.) BERLII4, November 14. To prevent a slump due to the selling of securities to pay fines, the Bourse Committee has prohibited Jewish operations on the Stock Exchange, but operations will later be permitted under control. The Nazi Motorist Corps has issued a decree for the immediate dissolution of the Jewish Automobile Club EVENTS IN GERMANY AN APPALLING OUTBREAK OF BARBARISM. PROTESTS IN GREAT BRITAIN. LONDON, November 14. The Leader of ’.he Opposition. Mr Attlee, in a speech, described the events in Germany as an appalling outbreak of barbarism. Protests against, the Jewish reprisals in Germany were made by bishops and clergy at the Sunday services throughout the country. ATTACK ON CATHOLICS. MOB DISORDER IN MUNICH. MUNICH. November 14. Hooligans prevented the singing of hymns during a Catholic demonstration, in which several thousands were celebrating in St Mary’s Square the tercentenary of the erection of the statue of the Virgin. The police cleared the square. Anti-Catholics knocked down candles. tore down decorations and trampled them underfoot and insulted the priests while the police looked on. REPORTS ACCURATE

MR CHAMBERLAIN’S QUIET COMMENTS. EXPRESSIONS OF SYMPATHY FOR JAWS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) RUGBY, November 14. The Prime Minister, Mr Neville Chamberlain, in the House of Commons, said he regretted to have to say that reports in the press of the action taken against Jews in Germany appeared to be substantially correct. “Indeed they have to some extent been corroborated by Dr Goebbels to foreign Press correspondents in Berlin,” Mr Chamberlain added. “The measures taken by Germany have now been published. No one in Britain would for a moment seek to defend the senseless crime committed in Paris, but at the same time there will be deep and widespread sympathy for those who are being made to suffer so severely for it. “Sir G. Ogilvie-Forbes (Counsellor to the British Embassy) has taken im--1 mediate steps to safeguard British

subjects and to reserve rights in respect to claims for damage. We have requested him to draw the attention of competent German authorities to the rights of British residents in Germany. He has also been instructed to address a strong protest to Germany regarding recent articles in the German Press, associating former British Ministers and members of this House with the recent murder of Dr Von Rath.”

Asked how the deep feeling of horror aroused in Britain could be made known to the German Government, Mr Chamberlain said he thought it was being made known by many means. He did not think they could be in any doubt about it.