The Government is determined to rpare neither trouble nor expense to make the coming Plague Conference the success which all concerned hope it will be.
A few days ago notices were posted round this city by the authorities, urging. the people to be guided by the regalations, and giving many instances of the reralts of foolish disobedience. Of the many examples I will quote three.
Owing to the tremendous heaps of drifted eoow in the compounds of thi city, it has been easy for the people to bide their dead and arrange with the Sanitation Barean's (hited farm) carters to take away the bodies with the snow and then jast bury them in the came outside the city. One carter and several mem-here of his family bad died of plague thas contracted, and it was proved that he bad earned tens of dollars at this work, systematically defeating the efforts of the house-to-bonse inspectors. The trouble is that pereans We bad hoped that, as the Fachistice trouble had stopped and the worries of Keanchengtze bad to a great extent passed, the plague viras in the north had lost ite power, bat it only seems to need a good start in a new locality, where there are no effective means of controlling it, for it to rage ae furiously it did at Harbin (Fochiatien).
in patting out the postera conteini the abore, the Government shows praise: worthy courage. Buteven atom facts
ignorant people from bring "the above will not stop these poor trouble on Wemeaee, SINS now If only the Government had the power and enough men for the work. it could stop this plague. As I have previously pointed out, our high officials in Mancbaria are anxiona to do all they cap, but they are constantly checkmated by the people and their own subordinates, aod they are not, one fears, whole-beartedl; Peking. ly supported from
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