October 7th, Hl38.
THE S.A. JEWISH CHRONICLE.
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PALESTINE S"l")JPHONY OJH'Hl<JSTHA.
Jerusalem.
Entering upon it.· third ."et1:;r1n, tlit·
Pulestinc 8,'I mphony Orche:strn ha;; issued fiaure. for the pa. t brn year,. Th mu,.,i- cians travellerl 1.4,000 kilometres (220 times between Tel-.\.Yi1" and J ermm!.'111, ~ r m·er a third of the distance l'ound tlit.:
world!) lo gin~ 175 concerts, \I hich \\ere attended by 270,000 people. As there
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50 eoucert series, th :34£1 rcli 'tm.:nls rept·e- sen led i-.e\'en l'ol' e\-en· eoucert.
There al" :203 pt'J's~Jl'i "upported by tlw Orche:-;tn1. 'l'his borly no1\ represent,; one of the prinuipal fadors in the artistic lift>
of the countr,1-.
The third .:eason begins in 0<.:tob ·r, "it h Broni,.,lnw J [ubermnnn appearing m; ;.;oloist for the first time in u year sincL• his ttl'ci- den t in Jani.
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PAl.gS'l'INJ<> :\L\RIS'E '!'HUST.
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'rht· t•let·ti1111s to th _\!urine 'l'n1. t i11 'l\·I·
A1i\ \\Cl'<' ht•lrl 1ollow111g tliv Hll]'l'l'llll' CourL'i-; rejediun of 11 suil b5 Hevisionist ,;hurelwlclers I'm an injnndio11. 'l'lit•rc \\1•1·1·
61,UOO mfrs cu st for t lie re-elt•c·t ion of H.
Uoofic·11, I l'tHit' Hnkat•b ancl ot hc·1· 11H.'tll- ber. · o[ !lte tlirPc!o1·ute, against tt5H.- (Palcur.)
WA'l'BR FOU,\TU IX HANlTA.
Jerusalem.
\\'tt!cr \\as found at Hanitn, nfte1' boring,; Jasti11g for seyerul 1Yeek1-1. al u
d pll1 of 10~ metres. I! is of oubtarnling YRlue fol' the future agrieulturnl cl •yelop- ment of th• :;pol -(l'alcor.)
PJJAN FOR ROAD SEC RlTY.
Jerusalem.
A plan for :-;ecuril;z of roads iu gro,·e. in the f::loulhern J)istrict hall been lairl Lefore the authorities. Tt i: e. timatetl al a total of £30,000 nncl "-ill be financed l>s the Jewish Agency, Kofer Yislrnb anrl J~" ish Farmeri;' .Federal iou.-(I':tlcor.)
HIEF RABBI'S APPEAL J<'OR RRI,IGIOUS JNSTITUTJOXR IN' GEfUlANY.
London.
Dr . . J. H. Hertz, Chief Habbi of the British Empire, has issued an appeal for fund to maintain the religioui; imitiLutions in Germnny.-J.T.A.
NATIOXAL CONFERENCE OF FRIENDLY SOCIETIES C'O:NDE~INS RA JAJJ
PERSEC TIO~.
London.
A moving nppeal for he religiouR HJl(l racial minoritie8 made at the closing stage.~
of the Xational Conference of Fril·ndl,v Societies at Eai:;tbourne, re. ulted in a unanimou i Rsertion of the principl •s of brotherhood in intenrntional affairs.
The meetina placed on record "deep in- dignation :md abhorrence at the growing religiou and racial discriminaLion in variou countries," and expressed "pro- found belief in the maintenance o[ the
principles of brol11erhood a.' pradi ed by t lte friendly sol'iety 1110Ye111en t in th i-;
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J<~NGLISH TRA~SLATION OF 'l'AJ,i\IUD.
London.
'I'he. Sunt;inu l'ret-is, I imited, have pttb- Ji,.,hed the Tltircl t::let o[ eight Yolumes of their unnbridgecl EngUsh Trnmdntion of tl1c 'l'almutl. Jn the :24 yo]um :; alrend~
published, t hi!' ll'l•menclous undertaking is now tltree-quartt>rs fulfilled, ancl lite Fourth Set oJ L·ight 1·olu1m:.' which is no\\·
iu course of Jll'epuntl ion will bring the
I\ hole tusk lo nn P!Hl. A emnplele a:nrl un- abridged E11gfo;J1 trHnl'lation of tl1 • Baby- lonian Tnlm11cl 1\ill !hen be mailable in 02 1·olumes, I\ liieh 1rill eonst ilute a lanrl:nuu·k in publishing :whit>Vl'ltient, nut only from
tt liter;tr,V point nf \i1·w, hut 11li;u as reg:Hds fiiw pri11ti11g n11rl procl11dio11.
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)l'Nf'l11 FOR JEWISH HIGHTS.ew York.
'l'hl' fir"! plt•11.ll'.\ 11wPt i11g of the HL'lll'rill C"tmcil for .)r·wish lights eleclecl :\lt'. J~clgnr
J. Kauf11111n11, of l'it li-;b111·0'h, Ill' C'huinnan of tlte ('ornwil. It nll'o nppoinletl a c•o111 miftee rcpre,..enl ing t lte four c:o11stituenl orgnnisati011-;, 11:w1l•l,1-, lhe Amerie:m
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isb Co11gress, !ht' .\mcric:m .T Cl\ ish 'ommitkl" the B 'nnin
'rilh and the American .J e11 iio:h Labour Con 1mitl e (o co-<1rrlinate and externl the action 011 belrnlf of J em,; is Czeeho-Slornkia and Ita1,v . - ,J. T .. \..
Dr. X AHFM GOLD~lANN SEES LEAG CE DELEGATES.
Geneva.
Dr. Xahuni Goldmann, Geneva rep1·e- sentntiYe o( th .Jewish Agency, cli._cussed the question of partition and the attitude which the League woulcl take tmrnrcls thi:
question with a number of d legates.
Among the delegates Reen b,y Dr. Gold- inmm was :\fr. Hoignr Andersen, of Den- mark, ''ho has been appointed Rapportem on the Palestine ques(i011 by the Political C'ommittce of tlte League Assembly, a:;
well as the delpcralionl' fro1n Lithuania, Latvi;J, 1.>ohmd, Iloumania, Yugoslavia and the 'oulh American countrieR. Dr.
( T0ldmann harl also a special conf rencc with the Huu1uani1m delegation on the ,Je,Yif.h position in Houmaniu.-J.'11.A.
POSITJON OF DlSFHANCHISlO:D JEWS lN UOU:.\lANIA.
Geneva.
The ussurmwe tha( U1e .Jews who have been cli>:franchiHed in i:toumnnia undet· the law for the reviHion of citizenship will not be molested at least until 1940, was giv n to the ,J.T.A. repr !':cntatiYe here by the Hournanian delegation lo the League of X a ti on. , headed bv l.I. l'elrescu- omnen, Roumai1inn Foreign l.Iini. ter, and Prof- fes.-or SilYiu ])ragomir, Commissioner for
~ational )fo10ritieR.
"The atmosphere iu Roumania i getting less and less au!i-J ewiRh, the pokeRm n for th Houmanian del gation further de- clared. ''The wave of anti-Semitism which
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Houmnnia ltarl experie1werl \l'<IS <lue,'' he Kai cl, "to influences fro111 'en trnl Europe.
Kiug Cnt'ol, hrrn·cYel', had now taken the necessary measures HIHl hnd Iull,v restorecl order in the country, as a result of which ther • wa: no longe1· an.\ f'ign of anti- Jewislt terror noticeable.
"Om preRent G01·ennncnl," h con- ulucliccl, "does not intend lo depri,·e those .J e\\·s who were born in Humnania, nor those .Jell'>' who took pnrt i11 t hr \\'ar anrl those ll'ho for genl'l'll lions 11·erP useful to t l 1e cuuntr.', oI their Hcnmtauian l'itizeu- ship. Tltis category of .Je1rn will always find their rights fully protected."
t,l1JAGl.m ASKED 'l'O C'ON\'f<jNl•l INTER- -NATIO:\,\T, CONPlUlENCrn ON JEWISH
PllOBllF.M.
Geneva.
'l'he irnrnediute eullvot·utiun hy the Lenguc oJ Xatio11:; of alt i11tc·rrn1lio11ill t;Oll- l"rence "to ·oh,e t hL· J tom ish pruhlem," is dentarnlt«l i11 a n•solution s11\nni(led to the _\:,.,pmhl,\ o[ the Ll"ague of ).;11tio11s hj the Int •mat ioual }\•derntion of (he Len «ue of , - a1 ioni; Hoeietie:;. 'l'ltc resolut inn, whieh
\Ins :ulopled lJ,, the ~211cl ( 'cntgl'Ci'is of the l•'ed•ratiott i11 'r;pt'11l1ugtn lu:t Jul;), cun- dentllb the 1]i,.,frtml·lti><i11g of .lt•\\i'i in ce1·- tain Eurnpeu11 t;<Jtll1t1'il·s a111l a:k:; the Lt>ugul' "to eotl\Pll • \\ itl1uut dt·laJ an i11- tenwtion:1l L'Oht'Pre1wc• lo ""he t lie
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ewii;l1 prnlih·tn in E11rop1"" l l poi111 i; o\lt t ltu t t Ii. J>llt'flO. \' 11! Hl1°1t ti l'tlltf(•)'PllC'LI sltllt!ld lw (1) to gin· 01 l'i'-pop1dntt·d HtnlPs ti11aneial n,;sii;tanee tu rl •H•lop tlteil' lenitories nnd so xuppml a larger populnt1011: (2) to lwlp tlw .Je11" lo ereatc nncl dl'\elop a ::\a(iouaJ J l ome i11 l'1de,.,li1w; and (B) lo pm mole the l'lltigrnl i011 of so1ne ,Je;1 R into 0!11er couu- t ric•s 11\1ere thp1·e i: roo111 for incrPasPd population nnd to lit•lp Utl'lll lo settle in spm·sl'l,V inlwbitt'rl t1•tTito1·it>s off Pl'i11g them opput·t 1111ities lnl' t;olu11isalion.'l'he ,Je11 ish Age11c;1, 11 ltich i,; ge11erall;Y reC'ogniserl n. the nut horil'ed spokesman for Jewry throughout the l\lidrl, shoultl be inYilerl to lhiH iuter-ClO\enH11elltal cou- f ·rence, the resolution de111and~.-J.T.A.
NO -'lOlHti RELBASJ1JS FOR JEWS IN C'ONCENTRATION CA)1P8.
Berlin.
\\'bile • -azi authorities 11·eru still r fu;;ing lo gnmt rcleai:;e' e1 n 011 pledge of im- 111edit1te emigration, the 1,300 .Jews still held in lhe 8aehsl'nhauRen aucl Buehcn- wald conceutl'alion cumpR to-da.' fnce ap- parenll.'· pel'tnanent i1nprisonmenl.
t.:p tiU a £e1Y weeb; ago, nearly 500 Je,rn
\wrl bec•n granted tlwir freedom in exchange for exile arranged hy tl1eir fu1uilies or by Jewish organisations. 'I'b y were part of the 1,800 sent to th , lll'o emupR dming the wholesale Ge::;tapo rouncl-up of Jew which took place last .June. Xow, howeyer, prison authorities are informing "go-be- tween:" ~ngling for the release o( indivi- dual prisoner that all e'Xit gates are pad- ]oukerl, nu uiat ler 'rhu( the circ·umt->tnnues.
Xo reason ha been giv n for th suddenly hardened altitude.
The new circurns(ancc puts t be 8aehsen- huusen nnd Buchenwald c·nmpR ou a par with Dachau, from which e. cape b~1 par- don or otherwise is almost a difficult as from DeYil's Island. It is believed that fewer than a half-dozen Jew of the Old Heich lrnYe been r 1en<:rrl from Dachau in recent mo11!bs. Iforcll:v more ha1·e been freed of the hundreds Rent to the camp from Vienna and the Au. trian provinces.
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