PLAGUE HORRORS IN ASIA.
THROWN ALIVE TO THE FLAMES. By Telegraph.— Association.— Brisbane, May 24. Eastern files by the . steamer Taiyuan' show that the plague epidemic prevails * from India to China ' At Bangkok, .in Burma, large fire!,' are kept burning, and patients who 'are expected to die are carried to the vicinity of the fires and there await death. On death taking place, the bodies are immediately burned.
Cases have occurred where patients who have only swooned have been thrown into . the fire, ami. frightful shrieks and agonising screams follow, with no possibility of rescue. ■■~..,... Hideous stories nr© told' of- sick people being carried to boats and abandoned by their inhuman relations, who are afraid of infection. - '* *
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13497, 25 May 1907, Page 5
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