Evening star., 1938-10-30
GERMANY AALTS
JEWS EXPULSION
Deportations Wait Pending
Polish Negotiations,
Opening Tomorrow.
By the Associated Press.

Ds tle hSSoCihlcQTI TIeSS.
BERLIN, Octr29.-German authori-
ties called a halt. tonight to the mass
expulsion of Polish Jews pending open
ing of negotiations Monday to regulate
the status of all Polish citizens in
Germany.
The action was taken simultaneously
with an announcement in Warsaw that
Poland had abandoned plans for re-
taliatory measures against Germans
residing there.
More than 10000 Polish Jews had
been herded on both sides Of the bor-
der by Germany in counter move to
new Polish citizenship Law which
Berlin authorities feared would leave
thousands of these citizens stranded
in the Reich without passports.
Law Declared Misread.
The 11th-hour decision to halt
the movemen. of Polish Jews toward
the border came after Polish repre-
sentatives told German authorities
they had misinterpreted the new cit
izenship regulations of the neighbor-
ing republic.
Deportation trains which had car
ried thousands to tm frontier sieiieg
the sudden roundup started yester-
day we're directed to return.
The German announcement said
merely that an agreement had been
reached between Berlin and Warsaw
on the fate of those marked for de-
portation. Details of the accord were
expected to be worked out in the
negotiations starting Monday.
1900 Already Sent Home.
OF more than 10000 Polish Jews at
the border, some 10000 already had
been deposited on their home soil when
the cessation order was issued.
Conditions were deplorable among
the deportees. especially on the Sile-
sian border, when bitter weather add
ed to the discomforts of weary train
rides.
They were permitted to take only
10 marks ($4 each from the country
and many men had to leave their
wives and families behind, uncertain
what was to become of them.
Polish Red Cross nurses hurried to
the frontier to give assistance to local
authorities trying to care for women
and children.
Distressing Roundup Scenes.
In the former Austrian capital
brown-shirted S. A. troopers in groups
of six raided homes, loaded foreign
Jews, including Czechoslovaks and Ru-
manians. into trucks and hauled them
of to police stations. Most of the
non-Polish Jews were released after
investigation.
Some women beacme hysterical and
tainted. Even sick people were routed
from their homes, among them two
children whose limbs were in plaster
casts.
Eventually 1,400 of the 5000 arrest
ed in Vienna had to be sent home
because all places of detention were
filled.
1000 in One Train.
One train from Vienna carried 1000
persons to the new Mauthausen con-
centration camp on the upper Danube
Eight American Jewish students
studying medicine in Vienna were
among those who came In conflict with
the Nazis
These students, who normally would
pass their final examinations next
month, were not molested, but were
told they must leave at once Their
names were not disclosed Immediately.
The American Consul General at
Vienna intervened in their behalf. He
was referred to Berlin for an ulti-
mate decision.
Nom Poles Released.
Hungarian and Rumaniap Jews also
we're caught in the Vienna roundup,
but most non-Polish subjects were re-
leased after investigation.
The Polish consulate general in
Vienna was besieged by applications
for passport valuation, but most pass
ports presented were declared invalid.
At Munich, secret police officials