Twenty thousand Jewish refugees in Japanese-held Shanghai are facing starvation because of the rapid rise in the cost of living there and their difficulty in obtaining food, it was reported today in a copyrighted United Press dispatch from Lourenco Marques in Portuguese East Africa, where American correspondents who were interned in Japan are awaiting repatriation aboard the exchange steamer Drottingholm.
These Jewish refugees, the dispatch states, were dependent upon charity and financial aid from the United States. Since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor it has been impossible for the Jewish relief organization in America to maintain contact with them.
The Japanese refuse to feed the refugees, according to the dispatch, and they are selling all their possessions in order to secure food. Despite this they rarely obtain more than five meals a week, the report said.
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