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Shanghai Jews, Funds Exhausted, Fear Arrival of Refugees

December 9, 1938
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The small Jewish community here, which has hardly recovered from the effects of the Sino-Japanese hostilities, was alarmed today when it learned of the impending arrival of the Italian liner Biancamo with 570 refugees, 110 of them children, from Germany and Austria. The news, relayed to Shanghai by radiogram from the ship, proved particularly disturbing in view of the fact that $2,500 in refugee relief funds received recently from London was nearly exhausted. The money had been used to provide food and housing for 120 refugees who arrived this week via Siberia.

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