The Directorsof the British-American Tobscco Company have received a telegram to the following effect At Shanbsikusn, Yungkingfu and other railway towns in the interior business la entirely stopped."
From Chinese sources we learn that His Excellency Viceroy Hei Liang has gent s telegram to the Chinere Plague Hospital asking for experienced. doctors to volunteer their services at the plague-stricken places in Magcharia, and as a result, Dr. Sze Wei-tung and Dr. Chao Sing-ya have been chosen by the directors to leave on Satarday next by the str, Kobe Mara for the North. They will take with them anti-plague scram.
Romours are rampant in the Capital that the Plague has reached Peking the commercial classes especially are most frightened. Business of all description is at s standstill, On the subject of the Plague Dr. H. Couper Patrick writes To the Editor of the
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