PLAGUE IN THE EAST.
SPREADING WESTWARDS.
[PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.) St. Petersburg, Feb. 12. The “Bourse Gazette" declares that pulmonary and other forms of plague have occurred at 22 places in the Khurghiz Steppes and Astrakhan, and that several fatal cases are reported near Blagovestschensk. PATIENTS SPIT ON DOCTORS. (Received 13, 8.45 a.m.) St. Petersburg, Feb. 12. Plague has devastated Achitka, near Kharbin. There are 400 deaths daily. Buddhist priests and officials are preaching a new Boxer revolt against European doctors. Russian doctors at Kharbin state > ihat Chinese patients spit on the doctors, hoping to contaminate them. STILL SPREADING WEST. Bucharest, Feb. 121. There have been four deaths from plague in the province of Astrakhan, causing fears of invasion of. Southern Russia by plague. The Roumanian Government is proclaiming . a strict quarantine over the affected area. <
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 53, 13 February 1911, Page 1
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