Jews in Cracow have now been forbidden to use any type of transportation facilities, under a Nazi order issued this week, it was learned today by official Polish circles here. Recently Cracow Jews were barred from travelling on street cars or buses. The new order also prohibits them from riding even in horse-drawn cabs.
Jews throughout Poland have been forbidden to mail packages or letters under the pretext that these carry typhus bacilli and will help to spread the epidemic now raging in Nazi-occupied Eastern European territories, according to other information reaching the Polish government today.
A report reaching the Czech government here today discloses how German administrative measures designed to lower the standard of living of Czechs and Jews in the Protectorate have resulted in an alarming increase in infectious diseases. Official statistics for last October which just reached London, show that there were 3,272 cases of diphtheria as compared to 1,835 in the same period the previous year, 3,969 cases of scarlet fever as compared with 1,603 and 135 cases of typhus and 1,318 cases of tuberculosis as compared to none in October, 1940.
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