The Lithuanian legation in Berlin has presented a sharp note to the German Foreign Ministry protesting the arrest in Leipzig of a Lithuanian Jewish trader on charges of “Rassenschande” (race defilement), it was reliably learned today.
The trader, named Yomtov Lipman, was arrested after he. had been denounced to the police by an unknown person.
The Lithuanian note points out, first, that “Rassenschande” charges against foreigners are inexplicable and, second, that the deprivation of liberty of a Lithuanian subject on such a charge is a direct breach of the Lithuanian-German agreement of 1928.
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