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Trapped In Far

Plight of Gemans and Italians

By Marc T. Greene

Manila, July 11.

ADOLF Hitler showed singularly little regard for the fate of his loyal sub jects in the Far East when he started a war with Russia. For these rassing W and

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nor can they even communicate. Their business is as good as destroyed, and their personal security is now in doubt. ■Rprp in thp thprp nrp spv

erS hundred Germans,' ‘ltalians and

other nationals—voluntary or otherwise —of the Axis group. Feeling their posi tion becoming untenable, in the likeli hood of America’s—and consequently the Philippine Commonwealth’s—entry in

the general war, a number of Germans had even fixed their sailings for Ger many, by a Japanese ship. They were going direct to Kobe, thus dodging Hong Kong, and thenfce trans-Siberian. Some had disposed of their businesses and terminated their affairs here.

Likewise with several Italians. But, now that Russia is fighting, they cannot go; and, if they stay here, they will be interned the moment America enters the wa r. And internment in the Philippines, under Filipino surveillance, may not be so good. Also, it may last for quite a while, T , 0yv , 0 .-„

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ed‘ resort andi refuge of aispossesseo, uprooted and without-a-country, a Place which is middling wrth sue , already, and itself getting more than a utt j e uncertain economically, politically anc * socially likewise morally.

But it is Shanghai, or nothing, for a lot of these people. And, if Shanghai ever falls, great and grievous will be the crash thereof.