The Associated Press, in a Vienna dispatch, said today it had been reported reliably that the German Government was planning an organized mass emigration of some 30,000 Austrian Jews in 1938, with the number to increase in succeeding years. It was understood, according to the A.P., that transportation would be paid to ports of emigration, with funds to be obtained from the resources of wealthy Jews in Austria.
A move to organize Jewish emigration was started by the Netherlands humanitarian, Mr. van Gildemeester, according to a New York Times Vienna dispatch, which said he had secured the assistance of Dr. Wilhelm Keppler, Undersecretary in the Foreign Office, and had begun to form a committee to facilitate emigration. He was being supported by Arthur Kuffler, well-known Austrian industrialist.
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