Harbin, Aug. 24.
ITH the ink not yet dry on the Soviet Union's protest against arrest of Russian railway workers on "silly charges 0 Japanese sources to-day were broadcasting suspicions that Soviet' aeroplanes had scattered virulent bacilli causing the outbreak of a serious epidemic amongst Manchurian livestock.
More than 2,000 horses and oxen in the vie ity of Aihun and Peianchen, on the western side of the Siao Hsingan nye, have died during the past two weeks, it was reported here to-day. was said that the Manchouleuo Government is expected to take counter-measures" as soon as. the truth regarding the epidemic and its origin is discovered—United Press,
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