Berlin, Oct. 29.
Reports that deportations of Poles have been cancelled are unconfirmable in well-informed German quarters, but it is reported that Germany has postponed the measure, on Poland's agreeing to put back the passport control time-limit.
While thousands of Polish citizens, mostly Jews, were flocking from all parts of the Reich to the Polish frontier yesterday, many of them in cattle trucks, heart-rending scenes were witnessed at the American and Polish Embassies.
The rush is the result of a roundup of Poles in Germany as a measure of self-protection, Poland having decreed some time ago that Poles living abroad must report to the Polish authorities within a certain period, and that any ignoring the order are threatened with deprivation of their rationality.
Jews on the waiting list pleaded at the American Embassy, often in tears, that their applications be expedited, while Polish subjects appealed against the decree to their Embassy.
At various centres, Polish consuls reported that they intervened, with a view to getting the expulsions stopped—in a number of cases successfully Negotiations Continue Reports from Warsaw state that negotiations are continuing between the Polish and the German Government regarding the round-up, and Count Hans-Adolf von Motke, German Ambassador in Warsaw, left by air for Berlin.
Clarification of German action Is contained in an inspired statement issued yesterday afternoon.
The statement asserts that, according to the recent Polish decree, no Pole will be allowed to return to Poland unless his passport has been duly checked and marked by the Polish authorities.
There are at present about 150,000 Poles in Germany.
Under the decree, any omitting to have their passports marked will for ever become a burden to the German State, and the Government will not be able to use the right of all governments to expel them as undesirable aliens.
Poland had rejected the proposal of Germany to come to an understanding over the matter.
October 29 being the last date on which the Government could expect Poland to take over the expelled and undesirable Polish citizens, the German authorities are obliged to take measures reducing the number of Poles unlikely to obtain the neces-serv mark from the Polish authorities.
Consequently, several thousand Poles, regarded as being undesirable, were transported to the Polish frontier yesterday—Reuter, "Days End?
The frontispiece of the illustrated supplement today is a reproduction in two colours only of an oil painting by Mrs. E. G. Byrne of Hankow. Lovers of art may remember this artist's pastels, which were a feature a few years ago at the Shanghai Art Society's exhibition.
Mrs. Byrüe has more recently been studying in oils at home and has been unusually successful in that medium, especially in depicting genre studies of Chinese types and native life. She has been resident in Hankow for the past year, but left that city for Hongkong in the last train that made the journey; her account of her experiences appeared in our issues of October 27 and 28.
Mrs. Byrne is now residing in Shanghai.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.