THE PLAGUE.
GREAT MORTALITY IN MANCHURIA. A' FAMINE FEARED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Faking, February 2. Already <1378 deaths from plngus have occurred at Harbin, in Manchuria. All tlio white population from Mukden northwards, also the Japanese and the Chinese puliec, are wearing shroudlilce. garments, with holes for the eyes. The soldiery have drawn a cordon round the town of Fucliiatien. The inmates of houses surreptitiously east tlio dead bodies into the streets, fearing their removal into isolation camps, which are regarded as certain death. Tlio authorities are Hinging tlio bodies into deep wells, saturating them with petroleum, and then setting them on lire. The province is threatened with famine. Dr. Ashland, of the British Mission, states that the disease exceeds in virulence anything imaginable. Death occurs within three, hours. INTENSE COLD. (Rec. February 3, 11.45 p.m.) St. Petersburg, February S. The cold at Harbin is intense. It is paralysing the disinfecting operations.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1043, 4 February 1911, Page 5
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152THE PLAGUE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1043, 4 February 1911, Page 5
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