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THE BLACK DEATH

AWFUL DEVASTATION.

THOUSANDS OP BODIES CREMATED.

(Received Last Night, 10.20 o'clock.)

PEKING, February 6. Two thousand bodied of victims of the plague have, been burnt at Fuchianimen. Four thousand other bodies await cremation. The bodies at Hulan are piled up in great heaps on the ice in the river, awaiting its thawing in the spring.

DESPERATE EFFORTS

TO COPE WITH THE PLAGUE

Received This Morning, 12.15 o'clock

PEKING, February 6. / English and other volunteer doctors are making heroic offorts in Manchuria to cope with the plague. They are working sixteen hours daily, installing isolation hospitals and disinfecting the plague areas. One volunteer doctor is dead, and another is stricken with the plague. The Government has promised £IOOO to the family of any doctor who dies while fighting the plague. The British employees of the Imperial Chinese Railways are pluckily running trains with supplies to the infected districts.

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Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10158, 7 February 1911, Page 5

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Tapeke kupu
150

THE BLACK DEATH Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10158, 7 February 1911, Page 5

THE BLACK DEATH Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10158, 7 February 1911, Page 5

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