PLAGUE IN CHINA
8000 DEATHS. DOCTORS CARRIED OFF. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. PEKINO, February 8. Eight thousand deaths are reported. The plague taki\, the pneumonic form. Sixteen Russian doctors and their assistants have died. Half of them had been previously inocuiatca. Great difficulties are experienced in disposing of the d«ad. Tho population of Fudsviadstnn, which was 60,000 before the outbreak, is now only 12,000. Tho majority have migrated. PLAGUE CONFERENCE. BRITISH REPRESENTATIVE. LONDON, February 8. Mr Reginald Farrar, of the Local Government Board, and tho eldest son of the late Dean Fariar, will represent Great Britain at the International Plague Conference in China. WHOLESALE CREMATION. A TERRIBLE OUTBREAK. DEATH IN FOUR HOURS. PEKING, February 9. (Received Feb. 9, at 9.55 p.m.) Tho authorities at Harbin have overcome tho natives' aversion to cremation, and BCO bodies were burned on immense pvrcs on Wednesday. The doctors report that the plague has assumed the form of superlative scpticsmia. Death follows in four hours. Banditti are taking advantage of the general disorganisation. They have defied tlw troops, ,i division of which hss boen ordered from Mukden.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15064, 10 February 1911, Page 5
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