Jews in a city in Manchuria were the victims of a pogrom perpetrated by former Russian White Guards, reports received here state. A number of Jewish casualties occurred.
The attack upon the Jews was made in the course of the White Guard retreat. Jewish houses were plundered Jewish women attacked and the Jewish youth killed. The pogrom was halted, only with the capture of the station by the Red Army. Many Jews were permitted by the Red Army to cross the Soviet border and to proceed to China.
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