Since the outbreak of the war, many people all over the world have made it a habit of sending at regular intervals, small parcels containing food supplies such as tinned foods, coffee, tea, cocoa, biscuits and other things to their relatives in Germany in an endeavour to help them to some extent to have more than they can obtain through the rationing system.
While the majority of these parcels are dispatched from neutral countries in Europe, some Germans living in Shanghai, Including "Aryans", have done the same thing, It was reliably learned recently that a local German, who sent such a parcel some two months ago, has received an official communication thanking him for his parcel and informing him that the person for whom it was intended had been paid RIN. 2.50 while the parcel was sent to soldiers at the front.
While it is not known whether this instance was the exception
reaching Shanghai from rather than the rule, information neutral Countries indicates that in a number Of cases, senders received no official communication but a posi-cart signed by soldiers unknown to them and thanking them for the Liebesgalen."
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