The Archive · 1939

Premises for Jewish Refugees

No Accommodation for 800 Arriving on Monday — 20,000 Expected Before End of Year Shanghai, May-12

]NLESS we find sufficient accommodation for the 800 Jewish refugees arriving here on Monday and the additional 1,295 "luc before the end of the month, these people will be forced to live in the streets", Sir Victor Sassoon told pressmen when he received them for 'a two-hour conference yesterday afternoon. "All camps are filled to capacity and we do not know how we shall be able to cope with the problem, especially in view of the expected arrival, before the end of the year, of 20,000 more.

He appealed to all Shanghailanders in an effort to find suitable premises where these refugees could be accommodated and said that the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation had kindly placed the premises of its Hongkew Branch at the disposal of the committee, where some 150 to 200 persons will be accommodated.

At the present moment, some 2,000) persona lived. in the various camps, hose people

ing fed each Vetor sais, whist 400 ware be: =o!d Rig S96 och Gay ah. doy cost of 99 ents hey, were worth, for? ande more. than another example, where an Sir 18 per person, "HI seems hardly believable that a id youth had come to a local foreigner can exist on 33 cents a day business man to sell him. and yet, they get three square meals of cheap perfume for $2. The busi EDU." Photo. fa doy and T-assure you that te Tood hhessman did not want the perfume Philippines High Commissioner Visits Shanghai and gave. the youth $2, telling him not only good but plentiful, even 10, take his perfume.

Paul V. MeNutt, U.S, High Commissioner in the Phillippines, who spent a few hours in though certain vitaming maybe Ince ing. Egat there, myself very, often youth oaked, and when though vitamins may be Inck-'°, K° Jou, and "of music?" the Shanghai on May 15. prior to leaving with his wife and daughter for North Ching a hors Chaumont, photographed sohile on his wd to Linch with Admiral HE. Yarnell aboard the his would-be customer, was, he sang Mind being. "stung" because it is fan aria from "Tosca." Just before

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