Preparing the country for all possible eventualities, the Japanese authorities today continued the deportation from Kobe to Shanghai of Jewish refugees from Poland stranded in Japan on their way to overseas countries.
A group of 300 refugees, including rabbis, were ordered to leave for Shanghai tomorrow. This will be the third group of stranded Jewish refugees deported from Japan to Shanghai in the course of this month.
At the same time it is reported from Shanghai that the Germans have made plans with the Japanese for the taking over of Shanghai’s International Settlement by Japanese military forces, with German cooperation, should hostilities break out between Japan and the United States and Britain. In such an event it is feared that the fate of approximately 20,000 refugees from Germany who found refuge in Shanghai will be seriously affected.
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