Since the outbreak of the war, many people allover 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 othe things to their relatives 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. "Tt was reliably Jearned recently that a local German, who gent such a parcel 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 pald RIN, 250 while the parcel was sent to Soldiers at the front.
While it i9 not known whether this instance was the exception rather than the rule, information reaching Shanghai from ' neutral countries Indicates that In a number of cases, senders received no official communication but a post-card. signed by soldiers unknown to them and thanking them for the "Liebeadays the place will be @lled with beggars.
'A check with the Shanghai Public Belevolent Cemetery revealed that on average 15 dead beggars have been picked up from Settlement street daily during the past few days. On Dec. 22, 22 bodies of beggars were picked up and on Christmas Eve 18 bodies were burled by the philanthropio body.
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