Forty civilian Jewish refugees from Poland and a large number of Jewish soldiers, including officers and members of the medical corps, have been interned in Lithuania camps, it was reported here today. The reports said that interned Polish officers have been engaging in anti-Jewish demonstrations against Jewish internees.
Reports reaching London said Polish Nazis have been supplied with the names of thousands of refugees who fled to Poland from Germany prior to the war and have been subjecting them to persecution.
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