PLAGUE IN MANCHURIA
. -♦ THOUSANDS DEAD. Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright. PEKIN, Feb. 2. There have been 4378 deaths from plague at Harbin. All whites north of Mukden, also the Jnpanose and Chinese polico, are wearing shroud-liko garments, with holes for tho eyes. Tho soldiory have made a cordon round Fuchiatien, where the inmates of tho houses surreptitiously cast dead bodies into the streets, fearing their own removal to isolation camps, which are regarded as certain death. Tho authorities are Singing the h'odios into deep wells, saturating them with potroloum, and then sotting fire to them. A famine is threatening. Dr Ashland, ■of the British mission, says that the virulence of tho plaguo exceeds anything imaginable. In many cases death results in three hours after infection. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 3. Tho cold at Har.bin is intense, and paralyses the disinfecting apparatus.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14360, 4 February 1911, Page 5
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