The Archive · 1940

The Refugees

Large Influx Denied

To the Editor of the "Nowmi-Cinwa Dany News"

Sim,—Some of the local foreign Janguage journals brought the news (seemingly emanating from the "Sun Pao") that about 3,000 Central European Refugees would land Shanghai in the course of May, swelling the number of immigrants to 27,000, As a member of the Refugees Committee in Charge of Immigration Affairs I deem it essential to emphatically contradict these Irresponsible statements, 1 estimate the number of Central European refugees Ukely" to Jand during the current month in Shanghai at about 30, and Possibly less, while the figure' per~ {aining to the entire refugee colony now residing at Shanghai is probably nearer {0 19,000 than 27,000, Kann Shanghai, May 25,

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