Just as in Harbin it costs a yen a minute to breathe, two.yen a mouthful to eat and three yen a swallow to drink, so in Manchuli they have one murder, two assaults and three robberies a day. The local residents have got so that they think nothing of it, and he who tells a tale of robbery or assault in which he has played the role of victim the evening before gets no more of a hearing than the man who, in Peking or Shanghai, informs his fellow toilers that he slopped over a bit at last night's dance. During my stay at Man-chub thieves broke into the offices of the Chinese Maritime Customs,
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