PLAGUE IN CHINA
CABLE NEWS
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.
THOUSANDS DYING DAILY' ENGLISH DOCTOR A VICTIM. (Received February 2, 9.40 a.m.) PEKIN, February 1. Thousands of people are dying daily from plague in Manchuria. In the town of Fichiatien there were four thousand victims. Entire streets were burnt in the effort to stop the epidfeinic. Bodies were thrown into the streets to dogs and birds of prey. Medical men are protected by gauze masks saturated with iodoform. An English doctor succumbed to the disease within thirty-six hours of in feet-ion.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10155, 3 February 1911, Page 5
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91PLAGUE IN CHINA Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10155, 3 February 1911, Page 5
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