The Archive · 1911

THE PLAGUE

A telegram to the " Ostasiatischer Lloyd" from Peking, dated January 18, is as follo Several cases of plague have ocourred at Tangebou, twenty kilometers east of Peking. The German Legation guards have been forbidden to leave the precincts of the Legation.

The local Chinese Press states that the Pekiog-Makden Railway suspended ite traffic for several days, as a preoantionary step against the spreading of the Plague, but the Ministry of Posts ud Communications has ordered it to vision de for sanitary, edoes tional and other reforms.

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