Show Nazis Plan to Use Jews as Hostages i No Matter How Shocking to Others BERLIN Nov 15 UP Fifty UP Fifty thousand housand Jews have been arrested throughout the reich in the last few days reliable sources estimated ed today Of that number to were estimated to have been seized in Berlin Many of those arrested are influential influential influential or wealthy Jews held as hostages host host- ages As Hugh Wilson United States ambassador prepared to leave for Paris Jaris tomorrow tom night on his way to o Washington the press sternly warned America that agitation against nazism would be reflected in n further treatment ill-treatment of Jews here lere The newspaper Schwarze Korps organ of the elite S. S S. S guards declared declared declared de de- that we shall use Jewish hostages systematically no matter how shocking some people may find it t. t The The- paper went on to declare that hat using the Jewish principle of an eye for an eye and a a tooth for fora a tooth the nazis will take a a. thoua thousand thousand thou thou- sand eyes and a thousand teeth for every German eye or tooth I Wilson arranged to leave quickly He will sail from Le Havre aboard the he S. S S S. S Manhattan Thursday afternoon afternoon afternoon af af- af- af arriving in New York on Thanksgiving day No announcement that Wilson had lad been summoned to Washington had lad appeared in the German press like Ghetto-like measures were being formulated in nazi government bu bu- bu- bu stricken Panic-stricken Jews in increasing in increasing increasing in- in creasing numbers besieged the American and other foreign con con- Despite repercussions repercussion on the German German German Ger Ger- man bourse It was indicated there would be no recession in the drive which has swept the Jews from the financial business and cultural life of Germany In the face of this nazi stand despite world-wide world protest foreign diplomatic circles expressed doubt that hat Ambassador Wilson would return re- re turn urn soon to Berlin Although the German press has suppressed all news of the indignation indignation tion abroad the afternoon newspaper I per took cognizance of f it today in an attack on an Washington Washington Wash ington Apostles of humanitarianism and the purposeful politicians of Washington Washington how how could they be otherwise otherwise are are panic stricken over the clean division of af Germans and Jews effected in Germany the newspaper said They hammer and curse with such effect that it soon might be too much for us This Washington should let itself be told Or has one ane failed correctly to understand Dr Goebbels Goebbel's words that any new campaign campaign campaign cam cam- will be a bad service to the Jews of af Germany Warning Repeated If so then it should repeated be be as a warning which should not be beaken betaken betaken taken aken lightly because it is meant damn seriously said The campaign of Jew hostages arrests continued Fritz Warburg H Hamburg banker and brother of tet t e elate elate late ate Felix Warburg and Paul Moritz Warburg Wallburg American financiers was reported to have been taken into custody Jews did not expect decrees aimed at cultural limitation to end with their banishment from German German German Ger Ger- man schools and universities More decrees along this line were expected as soon as the nazis found new opportunities to detach Jewish and German economic and cultural life by the establishment of ghet ghet- tos More Suicides Reported I New suicides were reported as I Jews tried to raise nearly to pay a fine levied on Jews as asa asa asa I a whole and repair damage done to Jewish property by rioters Behind the announced nazi motive for forthe the drive the drive the killing of a minor German official of the embassy in Paris some Paris some financial circles saw sawan sawan sawan an acute nazi economic situation n as the real cause Germany faces a huge and rapidly rapid rapid- ly mounting deficit it was said New funds were needed for Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering's Goering's Goer- Goer ings ing's year four-year plan of economic sufficiency self-sufficiency which had placed placeda a heavy drain on the nation The reich already had floated this year more than marks in new loans and it seemed impossible to arrange additional additional additional addi addi- loans although more funds were needed to finance public works under the year four-year plan Although the fine on Jews would not solve the reich financial problem problem problem lem it would reduce the deficit and alleviate the financial situation for fora a few months Meanwhile a group of prominent Jews assessed a total of to aid poorer Jews in repairing damaged property were ordered to pay within a day or ar two It was believed that many of those assessed would be forced to liquidate realty and other other- oth holdings The United States cons consulate late was swamped with telegrams from abroad Most asked for information information information tion regarding relatives and friends friend More than persons gathered at atthe atthe atthe the consulate attempting to obtain visas Flee From Terrorism Refugees continued to stream into Berlin from the provinces to escape terrorism They brought reports of even greater ruthlessness in the small towns than that in Berlin during last weeks week's rioting Informed Inform d quarters believed that the majority of Jews already sent to concentration camps would be kept there unless they succeeded in making arrangements to emi emi- grate Before Thursdays Thursday's rioting it had been estimated that Jews were receiving private reli relief relict in some form Now informed quarters said that num number er certainly would be doubled I The German press also attacked the British press for its criticism I of af Semitic anti-Semitic action The said the British press criticised Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many li like e a school mistress and charged English atrocities and cruelties in India South Africa and Palestine I Current conditions in Palestine were headlined Inhuman Methods Methods Meth Meth- of English Against the Arabs Subh said Eight Houses Meth-j Meth Blown Up by British Troops Troops Raids Raids in Palestine Continue Continue British British History History History His His- tory Is Example of Sanguinary Terrorism Where were the English champions champions champions cham cham- of humanitarianism the newspaper asked when Jewish terrorism droVe hundreds hundred of thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of Germans from jobs and caused tens of thousands of suicides and brought the reich to the rim of the abyss of bf ruination |