Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 16, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free july bomb hits no injuries reported a photo a palestinian policemen tells boys not to enter a jewish area of Hebron As palestinian police and israeli troops cooperate for the first time in weeks to pre vent Israel has promised Strong action if the violence in Hebron Jerusalem a mortar bomb of Katusha rocket fixed from South Lebanon slammed into Nof them Israel a Day after israeli shelling killed two lebanese israeli Security sources no one was wounded in the the army said it was checking the one tary source said it appeared a round of 120mm mortar fire had hit ars fired by t Lias from South Lebanon have hit the jewish state this most apparently aimed at israeli troops patrolling a 15 Kilometre South Lebanon occupation Hezbollah guerrillas said ear her yesterday they had fired Katusha rockets into israeli and Allied militia posts in South in Israel backed South Lebanon army Sla militia sources said a number of Kat Yushas fell near the israeli outpost of Blat and the Sla outposts of dime Shkineh and Risha inside israels South Lebanon occupation wounding two lebanese civil the Katusha rocketing was in response for the used violation of april 1996 understanding which bans fir ing on a Hezbollah spokesman told Reuters in Beirut the april 1996 ceasefire understanding which ended 17 Days of an israeli onslaught on Lebanon in which about 200 people mainly civilians were bars Israel and Hezbollah from hitting civilian israeli shelling monday night killed two civilians in the Vil Lage of in Shanghai japanese occupiers rounded up jews into a tiny ghetto their Haven became hell by Henry Chu los Angeles times China Ingrid Wilmot stopped eating Apple cores just a few years she had nicked up the habit As a girl in this freewheeling treaty port during world War when food and dignity were scarce among the jews who fled to China from the nazi juggernaut in they came by the thousands to the Only City on Earth that would accept them without passports or visas no questions Den of vice and opium addicts and was their improbable but in to appease the the cites japanese occupiers rounded up the newly arrived jews into a ghetto Here less than two Miles for two most from Germany and battled fear and want in the Little known Hong Kew ghetto on Shanghai northeastern half a world away from the Holo Caust in nazi controlled Shanghai offered the jews a Refuge from hitlers Germany no questions asked they fought diseases so virulent that even bananas and oranges had to be soaked in chemicals for an hour before being they sweated out rumours that they might All be deported without they suffered at the hands of capricious japanese yet they nearly All survived to see the end of the a testament to human resilience and that their japanese Cap who brutalized the were less monstrous toward the despite nazi proposals to Slaughter the conditions in Shanghai were but it want said one of the scores of Shanghai Landers who eventually settled in the los Angeles scholars Are scrambling to preserve stories like Wum ots and those of other Shanghai ghetto survivors before time overtakes after half a Century of reluctance by Many to speak out about the arid limited Access to records and material in a new urgency has taken hold to save a slice of history unknown even to Many academics have begun collect ing Oral survivors Are writing diplomatic ties Between China and to shed Only five years have finally made Scholastic exchanges possible Between the two coun it was always Felt that anybody who was not in a concentration Camp want a True and we in Shanghai Felt that a said Evelyn Pike author Olg tetto an account of her childhood in i wrote my Book because i Felt it was a Story of the holocaust that a Little different and that needed to be for her and thousands of jews who escaped to the Story started with the nazi rampage known As when jewish businesses were destroyed and synagogues Burnt Down in in one of the nazis first terrified jews began looking for a Way word quickly spread that cosmopolitan even under its new japanese placed no restrictions or quotas on jewish thousands of jews were already living in Shanghai by the in Early Heinz Joachim then watched As his sold the rest of his once successful hat factory in Berlin and used the Cash to buy train tickets for his family to with hundreds of other jewish the cohns boarded the Conte Biancamano in Genoa and set sail for Relief groups funded by Ameri can and local jews met the new arrivals and processed them at embankment those without sponsors or relatives in Shanghai were shipped to one of several shelters across the the dormitories teemed with More people than could at the Ward Road facility in scores of men shared a single said who spent five years Scarlet fever killed 100 people in the various shelters in the luckier refugees had brought jewelry and furs to Pawn or skills to put to immediate which enabled them to buy houses and apartments outside a rundown District badly damaged in bomb attacks by but most stayed in site of the future relying on menial work or Charity to eke out reduced for the refugee Community thrived alongside the established jewish children attended British run jewish synagogues held services on Friday but time was running in after More than jewish immigrants had arrived in the previous two years an influx that some jewish Relief groups had tried to Stem for fear of overcrowding the War in the Pacific broke food was rationed and foreign Aid to jews was Cut the flow of refugees also was Day finally the jews in Hong Kew were exhausted from life in the ghetto they had endured for nearly 30 but some Felt angry that they had not waited out the War in unaware of the genocide of 6 million when word trickled to As the names of holocaust survivors were posted on the Walls of the liberated the enormity of what they had escaped filled the Hong Kew jews with a terrible sense of that guilt lingered for resulting in years of silence after virtually All the ghetto survivors left China in the late mostly for the United states and the newly founded nation of Aiso was s tithe is Hong Kong in talks with China to raise child immigrant quota Reuter Hong Kong Hong Kong begins talks today with Beijing to discuss a crisis Over a grow ing number of illegal child immigrants from immigration director Regina in was due to Fly to Beijing today to meet a director of chivas Public Security Xuy who is in charge of entry and exit an immigration department spokesman told in would discuss ways to tackle the problem of thousands of Young illegal immigrants who ultimately have Resi Dency rights in Hong Kong but who sneaked avoiding slow Legal Chan a senior Hong Kong Security Branch official said in would ask China to raise a daily quota for main land child immigrants into Hong Kong to 90 from to Speed up the we need to see whether this is acceptable to the the offi Raymond told Hong Kongs new the Basic effective since China took Back the former British Colony on july allows Mainland born children the right of abode if they have a Parent with Legal residency rights in Hong last week Hong Kong passed a Tough Law to Deport child fear ing there would be an even bigger influx if a lenient precedent was set and they were allowed to stay without applying Hong Kong operates a daily quota allowing Iso Mainland chinese migrants including 66 children into the More than 400 illegal children have applied for Legal Aid to fight the some so applications have been Clearing the Way for the fam Ilies to face the government in an estimated children of separated families Are waiting in China to join parents in this capitalist families often resort to smuggling the children in or face demands for bribes by chinese new rulers deny limiting democracy Reuter Hong Kong the govern ment fended off attacks on its plans for the first legislative election under chinese Rule saying they were not meant to limit representation of the pro democracy Secretary for constitutional affairs Nicholas no said regardless of which electoral method was the populist democratic party could com Mand All seats if it won enough if the Community aspirations Are All uniform and everyone supports the democratic it Doest matter which system you he said Dur ing a news briefing to foreign journal they will grab All the no was responding to criticism of the government after last weeks unveiling of electoral methods for legislative election which will be held next the former British Colony was returned to China on july under the Hong Kong will dump the method for the 20 seats of the 60seat Cham Ber to be directly elected from Geo graphical opting for a proportional representation the territory will be divided into five each with three to five seats depending on the size of pop in the last legislative election in the territory was divided into 20 smaller geographical constituencies allocated one seat 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