More than 5,000 Sudetenland refugees have brought an estimated $20,000,000 in capital to Canada since the seizure of Czechoslovakia, and have invested it in a wide assortment of industries, it was reported today by Frederick T. Birchall in an Ottawa dispatch to the New York Times. Birchall quoted a Montreal business man as estimating that at least $500,000,000 more in refugee capital was seeking employment in Canada.
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