THE PLAQUE.
■ •• '———.(j— '-——^ .'" 'HEAVY MORTALITY CONTINUES. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright. ; Peking, February 8. ' Thero have been 8000 deaths from plague, in tho pneumonic form. Sixteen Russian doctors and assistants have died. Half had • previously been inoculated. Great difficulty is being experienced in regard to the disposal of tho dead. Tho population of Fudsviadstan, formerly 00,000, is now 12,000. Tho inhabitants havo chiefly migrated. AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. London, February .8. Dr. Reginald Farrar, of the ~ Local Government Board, and eldest son . of the lato Dean Farrar, will represent Great Britain at tho International Plague Conference in China. BANDITTI DEFY TOE TROOPS. (Rec. February 9, 9.55 p.m.) Peking, February 9. Tho authorities at' Harbin have overcome tho aversion of the natives to cremation, and' 800 bodies were burned in immense pyres on Wednesday. • The doctots report that the plague has assumed tho superlative septicaemia form, and death follows in four hours,
Banditti aro taking advantago of the general disorganisation,- and- have defied tho troops. ,A further division of "troops has been ordered from Mukden.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1048, 10 February 1911, Page 5
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