Anonymous fascists today threatened to blow up the Bothschild Hospital, which houses 2,000 Jewish refugees, unless “the Jews who were responsible for the war disappear” from Austria. Jewish authorities turned over the said letters to American military authorities.
The steady exodus of Rumanian Jews from Vienna to Italy and the U.S. some of Germany continues at the rate of about 1,200 weekly. Since new arrivals from Rumania now total only about half that number, it is expected that, barring inforeseen events, the Jewish refugee population in Austria will be down to 20,000 by winter.
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