THE PLAGUE
HORRORS IN THE EAST INHUMAN DOINGS AT BANGKOK. HIDEOUS STORIES. By Aasociatton--Copyriffht. BRISBANE, May 24. Eastern files by tho steamer Taiyuan show that plague epidemics prevail from India to China. At Bangkok (Siam) large bonfires aro kept burning. Patients who are expected to die aro carried to the vicinity of tho fire and await death. They are then burned. Cases occur where patients who have only swooned aro thrown into the fire, when frightful shrieks and agonising screams follow, but there is no possibility of rescue. Hideous stories are told of sick people being carried to boats and abandoned by their inhuman relations, who are afraid of isfoctioh.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6218, 25 May 1907, Page 7
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