An additional 60 Jewish refugees were air-lifted from Shanghai to Japan by a J.D.C.-chartered Alaska Airline plane on the first leg of a flight to Canada, bringing to 150 the total number evacuated from the strife-tern Chinese city, it was announced today by the Joint Distribution Committee. The Plane, which took off on Friday was the third to leave Shanghai. Eighty-eight other refugees arrived in Canada on Saturday.
The refugees are part of a group of 320 who have been granted entry into Canada through the intercession of J.D.C.’s cooperating agency, the Canadian Jewish Congress. Fifty of them have been granted permanent stay, while the remainder were given six-month visas. They will be maintained by the Canadian Jewish Congress while in Canada. Costs for the airlift operation will be assumed by the J.D.C. and the International Refugee Organization.
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