PLAGUE SPREADING.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1051, 14 February 1911, Page 5

PLAGUE SPREADING.

ALL MANCHURIA AFFECTED.

RUSSIAN FRONTIER CLOSED.

FIFTEEN HUNDRED CORPSES CREMATED^, ,

By Telegraph—l'ress Association—Copyright (Ree. February'l4, 0.45" a.m.) r St. Petersburg, February 14.

Owing to n case of suspected plaguo being reported near 1 tho" Russian boundary tho Governor of tjjfc, Amur Territory has closed the Manehurian frontier by_ n military cordon established along tho Rivers Amur and Ursuri. ' ■■■*, Fifteen liuiidred ,morb. corpses have been cremated at Mukderi; The plague is creeping ovet' the whole of' Northern Manchuria, and'an outbreak is'reported at Vladivostock. The inhabitants telegraphed to the' Dum- urging their immediate isolation from the. Chinese.. The Duma has voted ,£4OOO to eradicate plague on the Kirghiz Steppes where it has been endemic for a 'deeado and is prepared to vote all tho money necessary for energetic precautionary measures elsewhere. :. ] .i V ". The explanation of tho outbreak in Astrakhan, is that plague is endemic among a species' of marmots inhabiting the Caucasians and that theso are closely allied to the Tarbagans in Transbaikalia, whose dnfectfd skins conveyed tho' plague to Kharbin. , i REVOLT AGAINST THE DOCTORS. By Tclcsraph—Press Association—Copyright St. Petersburg, February 12. The plague has devastated Achitka, near Harbin. There have been 400 deaths daily. •. Buddhist priests and Chinese officials arc preaching a new Boxer revolt against the European doctors. A Rusv*n doctor at Harbin states that Chinese patients spit at the doctors; in the hope of .contaminating them: ALARM IN RUSSIA. ' Bukarest,-February 12. The deaths from plagno in tho province of Astrakhan are causing fears of, an .invasion of Southern; Russia.' ' • ' The Rumanian Government is proclaiming strict quarantine.