The Chinese and Yunnan provincial governments are prepared, on certain conditions, to permit 100,000 Jewish and other refugees to enter China with the same rights of residence and occupation as Chinese citizens, newspapermen in Shanghai were told yesterday by Jacob Berglas, a German textile industrialist and philanthropist now residing in the Chinese city, who formulated the settlement plan.
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