THOUSANDS DYING DAILY.
PLAQUE IN MANCHURIA. DESPERATE EFFORTS TO STOP THE EPIDEMIC. By Tclecraph-Press Associatlon-Copyrlcht. Pekln, February 1. Thousands of people aro dying daily from plague in Manchuria. In the town of Fichiation there vrre four thousand victims. Entire streels wore burnt in (he effort to stop the epidemic. Bodies were thrown into tlfe streets to dogs and bjrds of prey.
' Medical men are protected by gauze masks saturated with iodoform.
An English doctor succumbed to the disease within thirty-six hours of infection;
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1042, 3 February 1911, Page 5
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83THOUSANDS DYING DAILY. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1042, 3 February 1911, Page 5
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