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REVOLTING STORIES TOLD BY JEWISH REFUGEES

Shanghai, To-day.

Among the Jewish refugees who arrived in the Conte Verde yesterday were industrialists, technicians and doctors from Germany and Austria, who had been released from the Buchenwalde concentration camp.

They presented a pathetic ap- pearance, having only hand pack- large baggage having on the German

ages, all

been confiscated frontier

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JAPANESE HELD NEAR SHATAUKOK

(Continued from Page 1). Shataukok, changed into civilian at- Machine-gun fire was clearly au-tire and crowded over the passes

this with the other refugees. dible in the easterly breeze

PLANES ABOUT morning.

One man had his head heavily bandaged as the result of an injury received at Buchenwalde and an- other, who was wounded in the Great War, fainted when passing] through the Shanghai Customs thousands. shed.

Refugees are swarming over in

:

The border situation is complete Japanese planes have been obser- By out of control.

ved on several occasions to-day.

At 2 p.m., I saw a huge low- winged monoplane, looking like bomber, swooping down low bombs 10,000 Shumchun, but no

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THOUSANDS FLEEING I estimate that between Although reluctant to talk they and 15,000 passed over in less than conveyed to Shanghai reporters un- an hour at one particular point, The plane came swinging to- the British border from believably horrible stories of bru- and the same rush is observable at wards tality in concentration

Shumchun, but as soon as the River camps every point. where they were held, recounting The refugees have long ceased to was observed, it whipped away and stories of savage floggings and mer-pay any attention to the recognis- flew towards the east towards the ciless conditions. But as one ed posts for crossing the border. region of fighting. man said: "We are fortunate; be-They are climbing through barbed

ROADS BLACK ing among the last ones released. wire, paddling through streams, All the roads in the New Terri- At present, no Jew is to be releas-driving cattle in front of them. ed until further notice, irrespec- Straggling into Shataukok are tive of his original sentence." numerous Chinese soldiers. As soon as it was discovered, however, that These refugees present a terrible soldiers in uniform were being problem to Shanghai which al-placed under arrest and placed in ready has its own quota of misery a barbed-wire concentration cen- and destitution.-Reuter.

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Some of them have come from as far afield as Lungkong, and ac- cording to them, the Japanese ad- yancing on Pingwu from Tamshui have still some distance to cover before they reach Pingwu, and are encountering resistance from ma- chine-gun posts concealed in the hills west of Lungkong.

SEEKING HELP

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At Shumchun, we found a Bur- mese ambulance. detachment, der a Dr. Chin, which had come across the border from Shumchun, to seek assistance for numerous re; fugees' who have fallen ill and are in dire distress in Shumchun.

They are hoping to be able to make arrangements for their trans- port over the border.

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KOWLOON TRAFFIC CASES

That the brakes of his motor- cycle were inefficient and that a col- lision with a ricksha occurred · on October 31 whilst he was driving into Mody Road from Nathan Road, was alleged when Mr. Julian Erame- la, of No. 28, Lock Road, was this morning summoned at the Kowloon Magistracy before Mr. Q. A. A. Mac- fadyen, for failing to maintain the brakes in good condition. He was fined $5 and ordered to pay $15.40 damages, to the ricksha owner.

Mr. E. M. G. Hanlon, of the Dairy Farm Company, Kowloon, was fined $5 for leaving his car unattended in Salisbury Road, on November 3 from 8.80 p.m. to 9.20 p.ṁ.

A similar fine was imposed on Mr. T. Landsbert, of No. 15, Gram- pian Road, for a similar offence at the same time and place.

POLICE EFFORTS Being unable to stop the rush of refugees, the British authorities have ceased to make any attempt to stop them, but the police are en- deavouring to prevent them from be less than 100.000 and may be passing Shatin or Tsunwan, and in excess of 200.000.

ANOTHER COLUMN are trying to shepherd them into

the scores of villages in the Kam Japanese troops also: moving Canton- Tin Valley, Starling Inlet, Lam southwards along the Ching Valley and elsewhere in the Hongkong highway towards the hope that they will be able to ob- Anglo-Chinese border. tain, some shelter until more per- manent arrangements can be made. No real estimate of the numbers of refugees passing the border to day is possible, but competent au- thorities state that the total cannot

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