THE PLAGUE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1045, 7 February 1911, Page 5

THE PLAGUE.

♦— DOCTORS' HEROIC EFFORTS. DEAD BODIES PILED ON THE ICE. By Tclecraph—Press Association-Copyright. (Rec. February 7, 0.15 a.m.) Peking, February G. . English and other volunteer doctors aro making heroic efforts in Manchuria to cope with tho plague. They aro working sixteen hours daily, installing isolation hospitals, and disinfecting plague areas. One volunteer doctor is dead, and another is stricken with tho disease; Tho Chinese Government has promised .£IOOO to tho family of any doctor who dies fighting the plague. Tho British employees of tho Imperial Chineso railways aro pluckily running trains with supplies to the infected districts. Harbin, February G. Two thousand bodies have been burned at Fuchiamien and '4000 await cremation. The dead bodies at Hulan have, been piled in great heaps on tho ice of the river awaiting the spring thaws;