PLAGUE SCOURGE. RAPID SPREAD IN CHINA.
MOST VIRULENT OUTBREAK IN HISTORY EXODUS FROM PEKIN. FOREIGN DOCTORS URGENILY. NEEDED. By Telegraph.— Press Association .--Copy right, (Received January 27, 10 a.m.) PEKIN, 26th January. The doctors ot the foreign Legation in Pekin consider the present outbreak of plague in China the most contagious and virulent in the world's history. Scarcely any recoveries are made by the persons attacked. The Yersin serum' has no effect. •The epidemic is spreading rapidly to. wards Hankau. Twenty-six bodies were found along the railway south of Tientsin. There is an exodus of foreign women and children from Pekin. The disease was propagated by Chinese hunters, who shipped furs from Vancouver. A hundred foreign experts are urgent, ly needed.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 22, 27 January 1911, Page 7
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