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THIS-JEWISH NEWS
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One-Third of Refigee Jews
In Shanghai Want to Stay
Another Third of Liberated 14,000 Hope to Remain in
China and Pradice Professions or Start Business;
Others Want to Emigrate to Palestine; All Need Aid
BY WILLIAM WINTER
Jewish Telegraphic Agency Correspondent
SHANGHAI, (JTA)--One-third of the 14.000 Jewish refugees
who have just been released_ from internment in Shanghai want
to • remain- in China and practice their professions or start busi-
nesses; another third wants to be repatriated to their native lands;
nd the others want to emigrate to Palestine.
This correspondent found the refugees in great need of aid.
For the time being they are still living in the Hongkew ghetto
where they were ',interned by the Japanese during the war. They
are being fed at seven public kitchens and each of them receives
a small allowance from funds supplied by the Joint Distribution
Committee.
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Their Heroic Resistance to Japanese Related
, Many of the refugees, who escaped from Germany and Aus-
tria to Shanghai before the outbreak of the war, are doctors and
dentists and their professional work would be much in demand
here. However, they need equipment and substantial aid for
rehabilitation.
The story of the heroic resistance of the Jewish refugees to
Japanese officials who wanted them to "cooperate" in disseminat-
ing pro-Japanese propaganda in the United States was disclosed
to the correspondent, revealing for the first time that a Japanese
Navy captain named Inuzuka was in charge of "Jewish affairs."
Japanese Captain's "Inducement" Ignored
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'Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
PALESTINE
Karl August Fischer, acting head of the in-
terior ministry of Bavaria, was at one time
chief of Verein der Deutschtums in Ausland,
U. S. investigators have ascertained, Victor H.
Bernstein, correspondent of the newspaper PM,
cabled from Munich. This organization was
charged by Hitler with organizing Germans
abroad for the Nazi cause, with circulating
extensive anti-Semitic propaganda, supervising
cells, such as the German American Bund, and
blackmailing nationals of other countries with
kin in Germany to serve the . Reich. Investi-
gating agencies have also recommended the
removal of Bavaria's Minister President, Fried-
rich Schaeffer, for having appointed Fischer
and similar men to high posts.
Two policemen of the Coney Island, N. Y.,
precinct are to be brought up on departmental
charges for failure to arrest . anti-Semitic
provocatures thiring a free-for-all between
Jewish and non-Jewish youths in the Brighton
Beach area, according to ,information received
by PM. The free-for-all involved a half dozen
Jewish boys, and some 30 others who were led
by a soldier, AWOL since July 25. The soldier
admitted that he had organized the gang.
The Arab newspapers quote a statement by
Emir Feisal, son of King Ibn Saud and For-
eign Minister of Saudi Arabia, that . public
opinion in America and Britain is determined
that a speedy solution must be found to the
Palestine,problem. He is reported to have stated
at a press conference in Alexandria, on
way home from London, that he expected no
change, favoring the Arabs, in the public
opinion of those two countries. In this respect,
he said, the policy of President Truman does
not differ from that of President Roosevelt.
With blue and white Zionist flags flying and
Hebrew songs echoing from her decks, the
French liner Ville d'Oran entered Haifa Har-
bor with 706 Jewish refugees aboard, all sur-
vivors of German concentration camps.
OVERSEAS
One hundred and twenty Jewish soldiers in
the. French Foreign Legion, who served in Af-
rica for five years, during two of which they
worked on a trans-Sahara railroad as slave
laborers of the Nazis and the Vichy regime,
will be allowed to return to France immedi-
ately.
Jews in Spanish Morocco were gratified over
the ending of the Franco regime which caused
them great suffering, and are expectant that
reestablishment of international status will im-
prove their prospects. In Tangier, Ceuta and
other towns services were held in synagogues
celebrating the ending of the war.
Jewish war veterans demobilized from the
Czech Army are now receiving posts and
directorships in German factories, hotels, banks
and other industries. These posts were former-
ly held by Sudeten Germans. The government
is reportedly stipulating that applicants for
these positions are to know the Czech language.
Techari Georgescu, Romanian Foreign Min-
ister, has decreed that restoration of Jewish
property to its owners, subject to examination
of their political views, and whether they noti-
fied the Romanian treasury of possessions
abroad.
PALESTINE
Nineteen forty-four was the record year for
natural increase in the population of Jewish
Palestine, according to figures released by the
Statistics Department of the Jewish Agency for
Palestine here. Jewish births in 1944 totaled
15,583 compared to 10,000 in 1939 while the
death rate was the lowest of any year. Births
for the five year period 1940-45, totaled 62,000,
which, together with immigration during the
same period, gives a net Jewish increase, after
deducting the deaths, of 85,000.
World-wide Jewish protests against reported
plans for the forcible repatriation of Polish
Jews still in camps in the American-occupied
zone of Germany, was urged by all six Hebrew
newspapers in Palestine, Davar, Haaretz, Habo-
ker, Hatzofeh, Hamashkif and Mishmar, repre-
senting all political trends in Palestine.
Capt. Inuzuka arrived in Shanghai after the attack. on Pearl
.Harbor and summoned the local Jewish refugee leaders whom he
urged to send cables through -neutral countries to Jews in the
U. S. so as to enlist the sympathy of the U. S. Jews for Japan.
The Jewish leaders refused. The Japanese captain, who proved to
be a student of Jewish history and literature and who was also
well informed concerning Jewish life in the United States, told
the leaders that if they would cooperate with him, he would try
to get relief funds for them from the Japanese government. This
inducement was ignored. Finally, Capt. Inuzuka threatened that
all the Jewish refugees in Shanghai would be exterminated if
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