The English press continues to devote a great deal of space to acts of violence committed against Jews.
The London “News-Chronicle” expresses disquiet over the fate of Kurt Hahn, who was arrested by Nazis last Saturday, and of whom nothing has since been heard. Hahn was a leading educationalist with a reputation also outside Germany. He was the Director of the Schlossalem School, a South German establishment created by ex-Prince Max of Baden. The “News-Chronicle” reports that when Prince Berthold of Baden, learned of Hahn’s arrest last Saturday, he telegraphed Hindenburg and received the assurance that Hahn would be released, though this has not yet occurred.
The London “Daily Herald” and the London “Times” in particular reproduce stories of attacks on Jews in Bavaria, and in other provincial districts. The “Daily Herald” tells of the case of a Jew, Stelzl, who was taken from his house in Straubing, in Lower Bavaria, by four armed men, who broke into his house, and carried him away in a motorcar. He was found a few hours later on a main road riddled with bullets. The “Times” gives prominence to the lengthy list of complaints, comprising over 100 cases of unauthorized arrests and of torture of Polish Jews prepared by the Polish legation in Berlin. In most of these cases the victims were taken to private prisons, apparently run by the Nazis, and there beaten with sticks, truncheons, and special instruments so constructed as to inflict pain without breaking bones. It appears from these details that the torturers take special care to avoid inflicting damage on the skull or any other part likely to lead to fatal results.
The “Manchester Guardian” voices a feeling of growing anxiety, felt in liberal circles in England, regarding the fate of well-known Republicans who have disappeared and whose whereabouts cannot be discovered.
It also calls attention to the disappearance of such leading Jewish Socialists as Hilferding, Dr. Hertz, and Stampfer. It declares that the civilized world has a right to know what has happened to these distinguished men and a right to insist upon an assurance that they are safe.
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