THE PLAGUE IN CHINA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 225, 28 January 1911, Page 5

THE PLAGUE IN CHINA

MOST VIRULENT IN HISTORY. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. ■ PeKin, January 26. The legation doctors consider that the outbreak of plague is the most contagious and virulent in the world's history. There were scarcely any recoveries, and serum was effectless. The plague is spreading rapidly towards Hankau. Twenty-six bodies were found on the railway south of Tientsin. There is an exodus of foreign women and children from Pekin. The epidemic was propagated by Chinese hunters who shipped furs to Vancouver. A hundred foreign experts are urgently needed. A SYDNEY OPINION. Received 27, 10.55 p.m. Sydney, January 27. Dr. Ashburton Thompson, president of the Board of Health, and a prominent authority, does not think there is anything in the statement that the plague in China ■will spread otherwise than in the ways now known. He fears that, owing to local conditions and the want of trained experts, the epidemic will go on until it has exhausted itself. NEW ZEALAND AID. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. As a result of the Chinese Consul's appeal, £214 has so far been subscribed throughout New Zealand in aid of the sufferers by famine in China, and £2OO is to be cabled at once. Of the total subscriptions, £147 has come from Chinese. It is considered that the public might have made a abetter response to the appeal. Further subscriptions are said to be urgently needed.