FAMINE CHECKS RISING
SHANGHAI, 27th June.
"White" Russian dispatches consider that a rising which has occurred in Siberia, has been stalemated. Peasants and partisans are holding the countryside, while the Soviets control the towns. The cause of the uprising is definitely shrown to be a pending famine.
Millions of rats and other rodents have made an exodus into Manchuria. The rats are moving in such large bodies, attacking everything that they meet, that tho authorities aro firing grass lauds in tho hope of diverting their course, and are also discussing propagating some rapidly spreading epidomic om'f"g tks invadsisu
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 11, 12 July 1930, Page 9
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98FAMINE CHECKS RISING Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 11, 12 July 1930, Page 9
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