A TERRIBLE SCOURGE
VIRULENT BEYOND IMAGINATION. A FAMINE TERROR THREATENED. THOUSANDS OF DEATHS IN A SINGLE CITY. By Cable—Press A«o«atien—Copyright. Pekin, February 2. There have been 4378 deaths from plague at Harbin. All the whites north of Mukden, also the Japanese and Chinese police, are wearing shroudlike garments with holes for the eyes. The soldiers have made a cordon round Fuchiatien, where the inmates of houses surreptitiously cast dead bodies into the streets, fearing their own removal to isolation camps, which are regarded as certain death. The authorities are flinging the bodies into deep wells, saturating them with petroleum, and then setting fire to them. A famine is threatening. Dr. Ashland, of the British Mission, saya that the virulence exceeds anything imaginable. In many cases death results in three hours after infection. INTENSE COLD. Received 3, 11.40 p.m. St. Petersbur, February 3. The cold at Harbin is intense, and paralyses the disinfecting apparatus.'
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 231, 4 February 1911, Page 5
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153A TERRIBLE SCOURGE Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 231, 4 February 1911, Page 5
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