About 128 Jewish displaced persons from Shanghai arrived here during the week-end aboard the General Cordon and special plane from Hong Kong. Nearly 1,500 Jewish refugees are still in Shanghai but all measures have been taken to provide food, medical supplies and quarters for them, the newcomers said.
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