Soochow, Aug. 29.
Soochow was quiet through the period round August 13, and no demonstrations of any kind took place within the city. Rumours drift in from the surrounding country' but to sift out what is actual from many of the "Robin Hood" stories would require much time and effort, The Tocal police force has been increased and the service further extended, Health conditions have been for the most part good but quite a number of Patients are being seen at the clinics in different parts of the ity.
effective method has been worked out to quarantine houses, where cases of cholera are found. The house is closed to all outside the immediate family for one week. The case must be reported immediately and then the health squad disinfects the premises, and the patient 1s sent to the isolation hospital, operated in one of the former ' mission hospitals. In the event a case is not Feported the house is liable to be Aestroyed.
Some changes have been reported the local press in regard to the securing of passes by Chinese, The dividual must appear in person to ake delivery of the pass in order hat the picture may be checked waist his likeness. This makes lime ult for those who are detained In Shanghai ana whose passes expire, Railway trafic into and out of the ity has been confined since early in August to one train daily in. each direction. On some days it is impos ible to secure tickets, With the resumption of traMe on the highway it is a bit easier to get to Shanghai, A cholera Injection certifeate Is re-
Manchoukuo Protests To Soviet Consulate Harbin, Aug. 31, In a protest to the Soviet Consul at Harbin yesterday the Manchoukuo Government demanded the punish ment of M, Krinovisky Liskov and three other attaches of the Soviet Consulate who were alleged to have attacked a police box on August' 24 ear the Consulate and assaulted a White Russian policeman,—Indemfication for damages was asked, Domei.
Nat alization Sought Changchun, Aug. 31.
Soviet citizens residents in." Manchoukuo who have renounced their allegiance to Moscow and taken Manchoukuo citizenship certificates now number 7,600, official figui released here today revealed, In Harbin alone 2,000 Soviet citizens have become naturalized Manchoukuo citizens, while 1,800 others are applying for' naturalization papers The recent remarkable increase in applications by Soviet nationals for naturalization was ascribed by offldals here to the "bloody purge" now going on in The USS.R—Domei Floods in Manchoukuo Take Big Toll Changehun, Aug. 30, ven persons were drowned result of recent foods in Chientao province, on. the Korean border, according to the latest official reports." Estimates place the total material damage at over ¥.10, 000,000.
Damages caused by the food in lather "provinces have not yet been estimated, but it is feared that the Jdeath-toll is heavy and the destruc: Yon of crops severe.—Reuter, Boxer Students Leave Soon for England Hankow, Sept, 1
Twenty-two students of the British Boxer Indemnity Fund are. sailing for England on September 17 to pursue studies in British universities, Reuter.
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