The Archive · 1938

Eight Points

The eight points submitted by the Sudeten Party. leader are as follows:

1, Full equality of status between Germans and Czechs.

Refuse to Move Uut of Houses on Demand Three hundred Chinese families, occupying a block of houses known as Ching Vu Alley, off Chungking Road, face ejection proceedings as the International Settlement's overcrowding problem nears a crisis, it was reported yesterday.

The landlords, the report said, had asked the tenants to vacate because they intended to rebuild the houses. This the dwellers refused to do on the ground that accommodation w: s very hard to find in the foreign controlled azoos, the report added. Legal proceedings were pending, it was alleged.

Hotels, lodging houses, even re {ugee camps, are packed to the limi', the report said. This congestion was attributed to the recent increased influx of war refugees from various parts of China.

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