Towards the end of May, 1923, we received information of two fatal cases of bubonic plague in man, one near Yakoshih (a village on the Chinese Eastern Railway, 168 miles east of Manchouli), and the other at Haranor (in Transbaikalia, 52 miles west of Manchouli); both victims were Russians who had hunted tarbagans and afterwards developed axillary buboes.
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