HUMAN BONFIRES.
CREMATING PLAGUE VICTIMS. PEKIN, February 3. The burning of the dead bodies*of the plague victims that have accumulated m Harbin, Manchuria, has begun, and thousands of corpses have already been destroyed The cremating operations are being carried on outside the town. The coffins are stacked upright, surrounded with logs, and then saturated with oil, after which a torch is applied. \ Those who are carrying out this unpleasant and risky work protect themselves with heavy masks and, bandages treated with powerful' disinfectants, but the coolies who drive the waggons, being fatalists, fearlessly handle the bodies without taking any precautions against infection. It will require reveral days to cremate the bodies already collected. I
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19110211.2.56
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12378, 11 February 1911, Page 5
Word Count
114HUMAN BONFIRES. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12378, 11 February 1911, Page 5
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in