Manchuli, June 18.
The Ghinese Research Expedition, working in Siberia with the Soviet doctors, under my leadership, has finally traced the origin of: the Manchurian plague epidemics to Siberian marmots.
Numbers of sick and dead animals have recently "been found, from which arose two fatal cases among the Russian hunters.
Our relations with the Soviet ara most cordial, The deadly pneumonic plague first came to public notice in the early months of 1911 when it devastated Manchuria. The Plague Bureau subsequently established under Dr. Wu Lien-teh, who is a most distinguished scholar of Cambridge, after careful research expressed a strong opinion that the plague came from sick tarbogans or Siberian marmots which. are largely. hunted. at certain seasons. This theory Dr, Wu has now confirmed.
Tas "N. C. Daily Mail' notes that contrary to first reports, it is stated -that Major Garibaldi was rot kidnapped at Tsingtao but was carried off by the local- police, in consequence of some' dispute. As the Chinese police at Tsingtao include bandit recruits and are almost indistinguishable from bandits, the error was not surprising. On the representations of the British and American Consuls, Major Garibaids was released the same
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