Possible for them to be cared for, perhaps not 'a8 perfectly as might have been desirable, but at Toast in a degree of security against perseeulion. 'Their advent, however, raised certain important problems' of police' and hospltalization. which would become more and more acute as the number of refugees grew /Shanghai, throwing a by no means inconsiderfable burden upon a municipality. which has many important and serious problems of its own to face. The problem presented by the Infux of the refugees from Central Europe is by no means parallel with that of the Russians twenty years ago. The latter was much slower, and to a very considerable extent Shanghai, in comparatively normal times, was able to absorb them without too much dislocation of the city's economic life. But what took place in that connection over a period of years, has occurred now within a few months when Shanghai is economically in no position to absorb the new comers and may not be for some years to come. It is with regret, undoubtedly, that this dec sion has been reached, but if the Japanese, with unlimited space at their disposal, perceive the need for limiting the influx of refugee, how much more so must the Municipal - Council whose boundaries are not capable of expansion?
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