According to reports brought down from Manchouli and Hailar and as a result of the severe snow: storms that have taken place on the Manchurian-Mongolian border, Mongols and ohher nomads have been disposing of their horses at the absurd price of $12 to $15 apiece and camels for $20 as they had no means of feeding them. Naturally residents of these two towns have been speculating in this
being] who are able to keep their animals Red|ivestock a good "deal are _'those arrives are likely to reap avery. gocd profit. Besides this it is estimated that some 500,-
000 sheep and several thousand head of cattle wore likewise lost on the Mongolian steppes and enterprising persons are now busy findig the cureares and skinning them fon the spot, bringing them ts the frontier towns and selling therm at very cheap pricca.
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