Millions of Rats Invading Manchuria from Siberia Millions of rats and cther rodents fare crossing the Siberian borders and invading the adjoining parts of Mongolia and Manchuria, Passing to the south of the border river Argun the invading masses of rats moved in the direction of Chalainor and their vanguards hava been reported to be seen arithin 6)
lo metres from Hailar.
The authorities of the latter city re hurriedly organizing special detachments and improvised means fight the invaders, which in thei: progress exterminate everything anid do not even hesitate to attack the people they encounter, In order to make them change their course, bush sind grass are set afire. It is also planned to cultivate some rapidly spreading epidemic diseases amongst the rats, This migration of rats explains the real cause—extreme misery and starvation—of the recent uprisings against the Soviets in the districts of Ussuti and' Amur ard serves a3 a warning of a terrible famine which is forecast for next autumn.
There a further developments in the anti-Soviet movements.
All the principal cities of the Russian Far East are in hands of the Soviets, which are trying their utmost to suppress the peasants atu bartizans" and do not hesitate to te whole villages by artillery fire.
On the other, they are trying hard to arrange with peasants it compromise, renouncing their recent "eollectivist™ policy and promising to return to some of the confiseated cattle and property. Such a change of policy is commonly me: with distrust and fails to convince The prearranged railway acti ents are frequent. It was reported from, Harbin that the Soviet Consul-General, Comrade Melnikoit was instructed again to raise the question of the transportation of Soviet troops via the Chinese-Eostern Railway. The possibility of such transportation vid Amur way is out of the question: besides the greater distance and—poor equipment, the traffic on this railway is disorganized and in certain parts completely stopped as a ré- sult of the ever spreading. anti-Soviet movement, which according to the latest reports is now affecting certain parts of. Trans-Baikali The former reports of the would-
Province seem to have Deen incosrect. Neither is it tree that insurgents are using the cld national flag instead of the red banner. 'The personnel of the Soviet gunboats' in Vladivostok, who demons: trated their disobedience to the Soviet authorities are nevertheless ing political views. They took off the Soviet guards from th> camp of the workmen deported from Europ-can Russia on the Rusky Island but otherwise remain inactive.
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