DEATHS FROM PLAGUE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 239, 14 February 1911, Page 5

DEATHS FROM PLAGUE

INFECTION SPREADING TO EUROPE.

CHINESE DETESTATION OF DOCTORS.

By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.

Bucharest, February 12.

There have been four deaths from plague in the province of Astrakhan, causing fears of the invasion of Southern Russia by plague. The Roumanian Government is proclaiming a strict quarantine over the affected area.

St. Petersburg, February 12.

Plague has devasteil Achitka, near Kharbin (or Harbin), where there are 400 deaths daily. Buddhist priests and officials are preaching a' new Boxer revolt against European doctors.

A Russian doctor at Kharbin states that Chinese patients spit on the doctors, hoping to contaminate them.

RUSSIAN EFFORTS AT REPRESSION

OUTBREAK AT VLADIVOSTOK. Received 14, 12.45 a.in. St. Petersburg, February 13. . Owing to a case of suspected plague near the Russian boundary, the Governor of the Amur territory has closed the Manchurian frontier, and a military cordon has been established along the Amur and Ursuri. Fifteen hundred more corpses have been cremated at Mukden, The plague is creeping over the whole of Northern Manchuria. An outbreak is reported at Vladivostoek, and the inhabitants telegraphed to the Duma urging the immediate isolation of the Chinese. The Duma voted £4OOO sterling to eradicate the plague on the Kirghiz steppes during the endemic decade, and is prepared to vote all the money necessary for energetic precautionary measures elsewhere.

The explanation given of the outbreak at Astrakhan is that the plague is endemic among species of marmots inhabiting the Causasians. These are closely ailed to the Tarbagains in Transbaikalia, whose infected skins conveyed the plague from Harbin.