Threat to Refugee Camp To the Editor of the Nowr-Ciua Dany News"
Suy—I have just been out to Chiaotung University.
Six weeks ago, some fourteen thousand refugees, confined to the corridors, as the rooms were locked. The dead lay side by side with the living, and the; hole multitude was starving. Now, thanks to the tremendous efforts of a handful of charitable persons whu have worked literally day and night this pitiful mass of humanity become a well-organized camp, in which rice, hot-water, clothing, bedding, and treatment for: pneumonia, dysentery, mal-nutrition Jand maternity, are being generously provided.
However, the camp leaders, I found, were in' consternation." Their Jerganization was paralysed, their work-party suspended. They had heard rumours that the camp was to be disbanded almost immediately, ay the Japaiese wished to occupy the premises, 'The full significance of this move cannot be grasped by anyone who has not visited the camp, or imagined where the inmates, many of whom fre of good class, are to go next. they are. really' to be allowed return home at once, the "matter might not be £0 serious although a large. percentage of them will "only find their homes destroyed. But 11s unbelievable that these people would be turned awy, to throng the streets of Stecawel, in the depths of winter, Since Chiaotung is a Chinese National University, the Japanese have every power, as conquerors of Shanghai, to Essume control of it. No doubt it wil iso serve s an ample indemalty for {he smaller 'Tung. Wen, 'Yel' the Sopanese would surely not insist extoling their reward at the expense of several thousand lives.
"The camp organisers maguanimousreinsed to. protest ag.inst any ction that the Japanese military con-Sider necessary. This is\a east. per hhaps, where magnanimity isa weak es" Public opinion should tt least
2 great act. of mercy" from bein frustrated, ise vos Ina forts to prevent
Heveen, Shanghai, Is
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