The Japanese-controlled Chinese puppet government in Nanking has introduced stringent anti-Jewish regulations in Shanghai, as a result of pressure by Gestapo agents for a Japanese manifestation of solidarity with the Axis, it was reliably reported here today.
The Japanese police have shut down all Jewish cafes, restaurants and cabarets in Shanghai on the pretext that they were centers of Allied propaganda and were demoralizing Japanese troops, the report says. Tang Liang Li, director of the propaganda department of the Nanking government, recently broadcast denouncing the Jewish refugees in the city as enemies of Japan and of the Axis. He demanded their “total elimination from civil life.”
The Nazi agents are believed to have succeeded in persuading the Japanese to confine all stateless Jews in Shanghai in a ghetto, the report adds.
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