For reporting that Poles have demonstrated sympathy with Jews in Warsaw by throwing flowers and baskets of fruit to the Jews over the walls of their ghetto on the day of the Jewish New Year, Axel Biernson, Berlin correspondent of the Danish newspaper National Tindente, was deprived of his rights to send news from Germany for a period of six months, it was reported here today.
The order to deprive the correspondent of his journalistic rights came from the German Ministry of Propaganda, stating that it should serve as an example for other foreign correspondents in the Reich. The Ministry did not deny the report of the Danish journalist. It stated that the acts of sympathy reported by the correspondent were committed “by irresponsible elements.” It added that other correspondents will be deprived of the use of telegraph, telephone and mail facilities should they send similar reports to their newspapers abroad.
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