'A few months ago when the Soviet railway employees still were in Harbin and the new railway staff had arrived to take up their positions, there was a great scarcity of flats, but now that the latter have been allotted railway houses, and thousands of Soviet citizens have left the city, rents are falling and many landlords complain that their fats stand empty for two to three months. In this cold weather landlords let flats free of charge so that they will be heated and saved from damage by very severe frosts, Large als are specially dim cult to let as money fs scarce,
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