THE PLAGUE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10164, 14 February 1911, Page 5

THE PLAGUE

C j United Tress Association — By E?ec- I trie Telegraph — Copyright.

; FOUR HUNDRED DEATHS DAILY. RUSSIAN FEARS. (Received February 13, 9 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG..February 12. The plagu-3 has devastated Achttbi. near Harbin. There have been 100 deaths daily. Buddhist priests and Chinese officii Is are preaching a new Boxer revolt against the European doctors. A Russian doctor at Harbin states that Chinese patients <,pit at the doctors, in the hope of contaminating i them.. BUCHAREST, February 12. ! The deaths from plague in the proI vince of Astrakhan are causing fears [ of an invasion of Southern Russia. ..; The Roumanian Government is proclaiming strict quarantine. i ■ LATEST DEVELOPMENTS. THE PLAGUE SPREADING. Received this morning, 12.45 o'clock. 1 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. A military cordon has been established along the Amur and Usari. ■-Fifteen hundred more corpses/have been cremated at Mukden. The plague is creeping over the whole of Northern Manchuria. An outbreak is reported at Vladivostok The -inhabitants have telegraphed to the, Duma,.urging .immediate isolation from the Chinese. : The Duma has voted £4ooo;''to eradicate the .plague in the Kirgliiz Steppes, where it has been endemic for a decade. It is also prepared to vote all the money necessary fo." energetic precautionary measures elsewhere. •• ,'.

The explanation of the outbreak in Astrakhan is that the plague has been endemic among a species of Marmots inhabiting the Caucasus. . These people are closely allied to the Tarbogans and Transbaikalia, whose infected skins conveyed the plague to Harbin.