Sir John Wardlaw-Milne also asked whether a protest had been made against the closing of the ex-British Concession in Hankow contrary to the Agreement of 1927.
Mr. Butler, in the course of his answer, said that the gates of the former Concession were at present closed at night as a measure of security, The inconvenience caused by this action, he added, had been represented to Japan, and it was hoped that the restrictions would be relax-eù soon.—Reuter.
Synagogues and Jewish stores were destroyed throughout the country yesterday in the renewed outburst of anti-Semitism which followed announcement of the death of Herr Ernst von Rath, Third Secretary of the German Embassy in Paris, Jewish shops were destroyed from Koenigsberg, in the far north-west, to towns in the south-west of the Reich. Looting was in full swing in the West End of Berlin last night.
The streets of the city have been cleaned overnight and, apart from the paneless windows of the closed Jewish shops, there is nothing to remind passersby of yesterday's demonstrations, of which only brief, casual reports are published today. The damage that has been done is estimated at tens of millions of marks.
Crowds in the well-known shopping centre of Tauenzienstrasse watched hats and coats hurled from the windows of big department stores, while the Kurfurstendamm resembled a scene after an air raid or explosion There were frantic rushes to. secure furs, shoes and other articles flying about in confusion. There were many instances of individual policemen vainly attempting to stop looting. The wrecking was mainly watched by silent crowds. Only a small minority were heard applauding the damage.
A resper lo official of the Propaganda Ministny told Reuter that the Ministry assumed responsibility for the day's occurrences. He asserted that the Ministry had no knowledge that Jewish shops had been looted.
The police, he added, would stop that. When informed that practically every Jewish-owned shop in Berlin seemed to have been looted, he declared that if that was true, the action of the police was incomprehensible.
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