Peking, Aug. 20.
A very reliable foreign report from Harbin, dated August 19, summing up the situation in Manchuria, states that the situation along the Sino-Russian frontier is grave.
Small Russian raiding parties, the report goes on, have clashed with, Chinese troops near Manchuli, Suifenho (Pogranichnaya) and Lahasusu, on Chinese soil, and the total Chinese casualties up to the: present number 200 killed or wound-
Minor cases of sabotage, the report adds, continue along the Chinese Eastern Railway.
The despatch further states that individual Chinese soldiers Harbin are badly treating Russian and Japanese women, while it is reliably reported that the Chinese military authorities are treating Soviet prisoners and those Soviet. nationals who are under internment cruelly.
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