News from Palestine is becoming increasingly grave, and seems to indi- cate that the biggest military campaign the country has known since Allenby drove out the Turks in 1918, has commenced. On top is a derailed freight train, in centre a "anicide squad" on a small truck which precedes trains and below, the Scots Greys arriving at Haifa. (Copyright: By Air Mall).
Bringing Up Father
MAGGIE-WHY DON'T". YOU MAKE SOME CORNED BEEF AND CABBAGE FOR MY LUNCH ANI MAKE ME HAPPY 36
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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER
SENSATIONAL ROUND-UP OF POLES
Berlin, To-day,
Thousands of Poles, chiefly Jews, from various parts of Germany were taken to the nearest railway stations yesterday and sent home. Already hundreds have been arrested in the bigger
cities for this purpose.
Reuter is informed that the round-up is a measure of self-protection by Germany, Poland having decreed some time ago that Poles living abroad must report to the Polish authorities within a certain period.
Any ignoring the order were threatened with deprivation of their nationality.
HEART RENDING SCENES
While thousands of Poles were being conveyed from all parts of A large number of Poles have the Reich to the Polish frontier, complied with the order, the time many in cattle trucks, 'heart rend- limit of which, expires shortly, but ing scenes were witnessed at the it is declared that others, especial-American and Polish Embassies. ly Jews, have failed to do so.
THOROUGH CHECK
The police everywhere have been instructed. to make a thorough check of the passports of Polish subjects,
Those whose permits for staying have expired, and others whose passports are not in order, will be shepherded to the nearest station for through transport to Poland,
Jews on the waiting list pleaded at the American Embassy, often in tears, for their applications to be expedited, while Polish subjects appealed against the decree to their Embassy.
In various centres, Polish con- suls are reported to have interven- ed with a view to getting the expulsion stopped, in a number of
cases with success.
Meanwhile, Warsaw reports say that negotiations are continuing between the Polish and German
Clarification of the German ac tion is contained in an inspired statement issued yesterday after-governments regarding the round- up, and Count Moltka, the German Ambassador in Warsaw, left by air for Berlin. Reuter.
noon.
This asserts that according to the recent Polish decree; no Poles will be allowed to return to Poland duly unless their passports are checked and marked by the Polish authorities.
At present there are about 15,000 Poles in Germany.
POLISH ATTITUDE
Under the decree any who have omitted to have passports marked, will for ever become a burden on the German State, and the Govern- ment will not be able to use the right of all governments to expel them, as undesirable aliens...
Poland rejected the proposal of to come to an Germany
under- standing over the matter.
October 29 being the last date on which the Government could ex- pect-Poland to take over expelled. undesirable Polish citizens, the German authorities were obliged to take the measure of reducing the number of Poles not likely to ob- tain the necessary mark from the Polish authorities.
Consequently, several thousand Poles regarded as undesirable are being transported to the Polish frontier,
WELL-THIS SEEMS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE-I'LL GO GIT. IT AND BRING IT HOME MESELF-
PALESTINE
CAMPAIGN AGAINST ARABS
Jerusalem; To-day.
From November the Govern- ment is instituting a passenger traffic control scheme by which all drivers of motor vehicles and rail- way passengers must have permits:
tactics
Hitherto the·· Arabs' have been to issue commands directly counter to those issued by the authorities, but unless they conform to the new permit sys- tem, they face the complete paralysis of all Arab transport.
Arab citrus exporters are espe- cially perturbed as the shipping
ter. season begins very soon.
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