Two representatives of the American Joint Distribution Committee, Miss Laura Margolis and Manuel Siegel, are now in Shanghai and have cabled that they doubt whether either of them will be able to leave the city, it was revealed today by Joseph C. Hyman, executive vice-chairman of the JDC.
Both being American citizens, they were urged a few days ago by the JDC to leave Shanghai as soon as possible. Miss Margolis replied in a radiogram on Sunday, a few hours before the Japanese attack on American territory, that she would try to leave on the boat which was scheduled to sail on Dec. 11 from Shanghai for the United States with fifty Jewish rabbis and Yeshiva students from Poland for whom the JDC has arranged transportation to Canada. The JDC has been caring for more than 20,000 Jewish refugees in Shanghai.
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