PLAGUE IN THE EAST
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
By Cable—Press Association—Copyright, London, February 8.
Mr. Reginald Farrar, of the Local Government Board, eldest son of the late Dean Farrar, will represent Britain at the International Plague Conference in China.
THE DEATH-ROLL.
Pekin, February 8,
There have been 8000 deaths from the pneumonic form of plague. Sixteen Russian doctors and their assistants have died; half of them had been previously inoculated.
The authorities are experiencing great difficulties in disposing of the dead. The population of Fudsviadstan, which was 60,000, is now 12,000. The rest have chiefly migrated.
WHOLESALE CREMATION.
Received 9, 9.35 p.m. Pekin, February 9,
The authorities at Harbin have overcome the natives' aversion to cremation, and 800 bodies were burned on immense pyres on Wednesday. Doctors report that the plague has assumed a superlative septicaemia form, and death follows in four hours.
Banditti, taking advantage of the general disorganisation, defied the troops, and a division has been ordered from Mukden. •
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 236, 10 February 1911, Page 5
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