Why Do they Come Here?
"ro the Baltor of the "Norru-Ciuwa Date News!
Sm—Can you or any of your readers explain a question which has given rise to a considerable amount of discussion lately? With: out anything much in the way o! advance notice Shanghai parently to be called upon to accommodate a large _number Jewish refugees from Europe. Just how many will come here ani why?
Obviously, since they have been evicted from Germany and Taly they must go somewhere, but surely-a belter haven of refuge mi have been selected?
Shanghai at the present moment 'G) extremely hard-up (2) _ab-lutely Tacking in accommodation not over" well-supplied with foodstuffs, fuel, ete. (4) faced with a refugee problem of a consider ably more deserving nature (view ed "ocally).
Further, "there appears no it~ mediate prospect of an improve ment in the existing state of affairs There Is, instead, the likelihood worse times to "come. It is, for example, quite on the cards that when' e defeated Japanese tr000* eventually withdraw from China. Shanghai may have a close-up of some real fighting, and be withiowt any facilities for wholesale evactis tion of non-combatants.
One would, therefore, like know the reason for his sudden flux from. Germany and further: South, "Was it approved in advance by the Municipal Council or_at thr invitation of the Ta-Tao Govern ment?
Shanghai, Dee. 10.
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