THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 12, 1938.
DR. GOEBBELS TENDERS HIS EXCUSE FOR POGROM "Could Not Tell Policemen To Shoot Germans"
"Because Inwardly I Sympathised With Them"
Berlin, To-day.
“I couldn't tell policemen to shoot at Germans who committed the assaults because I inwardly sym- pathised with them."
This classic phrase was part of a statement by the Nazi Jew-baiting Propaganda Minister, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, to foreign pressmen in Ber- lin yesterday.
1,400 JEWS ARRESTED
IN MUNICH
'Munich, To-day. The number of Jews arrested by the Nazi authorities in Munich is 1,400.
More than half of them have. been taken to the notorious Da- chau concentration.`camp.-Reu- ter.
BRITISH ANGER AT POGROM IN GERMANY
London, To-day. Denouncing the anti-Jewish out- break in Germany, Sir Archibald Sinclair, Liberal Parliamentary lead- er, in a speech at Northampton last night drew two conclusions
KING OF ITALY'S from it.
BIRTHDAY
Romes To-day.
He said firstly we must redouble Jur efforts to solve the refugee problem, and make it clear to Ger- nany that if she wants the friend- she must ship of other nations
The seventieth birthday of the King of Italy was celebrated at Dr. Goebbels informed the foreign correspondents noon in Rome by a parade of 10,000 ease persecuting and robbing the that measures "must be taken" against the men of the Rome garrison past the Jews and flinging them on
national monument on the Plazzaharity of her neighbours, Jews, but they would be "only of a legal char-Venezia. acter."
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Moreover, we must not allow the The soldiers and the crowd of many thousands enthusiastically Arabs to be incited by German and responded to Mussolini's call for cal an propaganda, assisted by im- He emphatically denied that the outburst was or- three cheers for the King. Transports of German arms, to frighten
ganised.
Dr. Goebbels denied that there had been looting, though it was "quite possible that some old woman took a coat to give her daughter at Christmas."
The Nazi Minister insisted that the outbreak was "spontaneous," and admitted that some Jews were bodily harmed,
He added: "I am not so stupid as to export National Socialism to England and France, whose demo- cracies weaken them.
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Zionists Meet In London "In Light Of Nazi Bonfires"
London, To-day.
Jar Government out of fulfilment of our wartime pledges to give the Jews a national home in Palestine.
FRENZIED BARBARISM
Secondly, Britain cannot honour- ably hand over to a government which permits, and even instigates, such vile outbursts of frenzied bar- barism against what it regards as
subject and inferior race, of those primitive peoples of Africa of vho now enjoy the blessings: freedom and impartial justice un-
Jer British rule.
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There were several possible solu- but
NATION DEFENDING ITSELF Delegates representing Jewish communities from all parts of the world, particularly the United States and Palestine, have arrived in London tions to the colonial problem to attend the meetings of the Zionist General that solution must now be ruled out. Council.
"It is good for a nation to be able to defend itself against the Jewish parasites.
"I am prepared to give all our Jews to any nation which hasn't enough of its own." Reuter.
BRITISH OFFICIAL ACTION
London, To-day..
It is officially announced that the British Charge d'Affaires in Berlin, Sir Georges Ogilvie-Forbes, was instructed by the British Govern-
"We will open the session in the light of the syna- gogue bonfires now burning throughout Ger-
-Reuter.
many," declared Dr. Weizmann, reviewing the RAIDS OVER THE
situation at the Council's first meeting.
ARMISTICE
DAY IN FRANCE
"Since the Armistice," he de clared, "which we celebrated to- day, our people's plight has gone from bad to worse, but Palestine is our hope and we must not let our work of creation there be destroy. ed." Paris, To-day.. Dr. Weizman emphasised that the ment in connection with the anti- Armistice-Day celebrations took Balfour Declaration and the Pales Jew demonstrations in Germany to place in all French towns and vil-tine mandate still stood.--Reuter. give all necessary protection to lages yesterday. Jews of British, nationality living in Germany.
Negotiations on this question are already in progress between the 'British Embassy and the Reich
Government. Trans-Ocean.
GERMAN MINISTER IN MANCHUKUO
Hainking, To-day,
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President Lebrun, Prime Minis- ter Daladier and the whole French Cabinet, members of the General Staff and the Diplomatic corps at- tended a march of detachments of all unite of the French Army, navy and war. veterans past the Monu- ment of the Unknown Soldier in Paris.
A delegation of the Belgian Army was also present..
Hundreds of thousands watched the parade while squadrons of the French Air Force flew over the Arc of Triumph-Trang-Ocean.
Hsinking.
HEAVY FIGHTING ON EBRO
Barcelona, To-day. The Republican War Ministry states that hard battle on the Ebro front continues.
whose
The Republican soldiers, fighting morale is excellent, are of the resisting furious attacks Nationalists who suffered heavy losses
The first German Minister
The enemy, supported by artillery Manchukuo, Doctor Wilhelm Wagn-
The new German Minister will and tanks, launched violent attacks er, arrived here yesterday and was welcomed at the station by repre- be received to-day in, audience by in the Segre sector. The battle is sentatives of the Foreign Office, Emperor Kang Teh, to whom he still in progress at time of publica members of the German Legation will present his letters of credence. tion of the bulletin.
Republican flyers carried out and some leading citizens of. -Trans-Ocean.
BORDER
Prague, To-day.
Hungarian and Polish volun- teers are reported to continue their raids into Carpatho Ukraine territory.
Polish terrorists allegedly attack- ed the post office in Torun, killing one member of the staff.
Simultaneously from the south a group of Hungarian volun- teers fired at frontier guards ae- verely wounding one Czechoslovak soldier.
Numerous fugitives arriving. in Prague from Carpatucrain ask for he recruiting office of the French indicate that irresponsible elements Foreign Legion. This seems to have begun activities in this direc- tion.-Trans-Ocean.
umber of actions in the fighting. zone.
In the coastal sector the Ro- publicans repulsed enemy counter- attacks on positions recently cap tured by Republicans—Trans-
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