"We have no evidence or any corroborative material tending to show (hat Sir Victor was misquoted," the spokesman said, "but that might be possible. Insofar as the Japanese authorities and the Japanese people are concerned the above statements were noted, These statements constitute not only a serious slander against the Army but also against the Japanese people and the Japanese nation in general."
In the eyes of the Japanese people, he went on, Sir Victor was a member of the Jewish race and when one considered that the Japanese authorities in Shanghai had gone out of their way to study the question of Jewish refugees and had extended considerable facilities to these refugees, of whom more than ten thousand had been resting in peace in the Japanese patrolled area of Shanghai, such statements were regarded as most re-
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The spokesman continued that the Japanese authorities had been restricting the influx of Japanese civilians into Shanghai because of the lack of accommodation, From a humanitarian point of view, however, they had done everything possible to allow Jewish refugees to find a haven in Shanghai and it was regrettable that this attitude of the Japanese authorities had not been appreciated by at least one member of the Jewish race.
Shanghai Municipal health report for the week ending midnight, February 24, shows that the total number of deaths from all causes amongst the foreign and Chi-mese population in the Settlement were Foreigners 8 and Chinese 711. Deaths from notifiable diseases were Foreigners, tuberculosis 2, and Chinese, tuberculosis 81; typhoid fever 25; dysentery 6; diphtheria 3 and smallpox, cerebrospinal fever, beriberi, influenza, measles 1 each.
Tue health report of the French Muniçipality for the.wepk ending February 2%, shows that the total number of deaths from all causes amongst the foreign and Chinese population in the Concession were Foreigners 3 and Chinese 229. Deaths from notifiable diseases were Foreigners nil and Chinese, tuberculosis 25; pneumonia 6; typhoid and paratyphoid fever; beri-beri 4; diphtheria 2 and dysentery, typhus fever, septicaemia 1 each.
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