The Archive · 1911

Reports from Russia

London cid Bombay, Feb. 6.

Telegrams from St. Petersburg] 7 state that the deaths from plague at Kuanchentze (Changchun) in Manchuria number a hundred daily. Four thousand corpses are still awaiting cremation at Fuchiatien. The situation in other towns is equally terrible. Mountains of corpses are heaped on the ice at alan, in order that, when the ice breaks up, the river may carry them off.—Reuter.

Balan is town at the confluence of the Susgari and Hulan Rivers.—

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