Italy is widening arrests of foreign Jews to include not only German, Polish and stateless, but also Rumanian, Bulgarian and Yugoslavian, it was learned today, in what is believed to be a final effort to liquidate the “problem” of foreign Jews.
The newspaper Lavoro Fascista declared the arrests were made “in the interests of national defense.” It was reported that seven women were arrested in Brescia, including a Rumanian Jewess, indicating that women were included in the drive against foreign Jews.
The campaign to eliminate young foreign Jews from the military zones of Naples, Rome, Genoa, Trieste and Milan has been almost completed ## the arrest of 1,000.
Those arrested were taken to Salerno and Consenza and housed in barracks improvised from monastaries. It is reported that the internees are decently treated and allowed freedom of the town during the day with few restrictions, each receiving six and a half lire daily for food, for which none is required to work. Emigration from Italy is encouraged and the internees receive a police escort to the Italian frontier when ready to emigrate.
Indications from the towns of concentration are that the provisions for confinement there are temporary. Larger and more elaborate camps are being prepared in other localities in southern Italy. Quarters for arrested women and children will be included in the new camps. It is certain that all foreign Jewish men, women and children eventually will be interned in these camps until they emigrate.
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