BUBONIC PLAGUE AT BRISTOL.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 17 August 1916, Page 5

BUBONIC PLAGUE AT BRISTOL.

INFECTED RAT SUPPOSED TO CAUSE THE OUTBREAK. IS THIS A GERMAN PLAN? LONDON, August 15. Throe cases of bubonic plague have occurred at Bristol. A medical officer thinks it possible the trouble has arisen from an infected rat, which was found deliberately infected. Investiga-

tion is proceeding.

CHINO-JAPANESE SENSATION,

JAPANESE POLICEMAN SHOT

CHINESE THREATEN JAPANESE

RESIDENTS

{Received 8.50.). TOKIO, August 1(5. Most sensational details are involved in the Cheugchiatung affair. Chinese soldiers assaulted a Japanese, whereupon the only Japanese policeman in Chengehiatung went to the barracks and remonstrated. He was shot at and killed by a Chinese soldier. Subsequently a squad of Japanese troops approached the barracks, when the Chinese tired, wounding seventeen. Hewspapers assert that Chinese mobs are threatening a hundred Japanese residents in Chengehiatung.