London vid Bombay, Jan. 23.
Telegrams from Berlin state that the papers are publishing reports that the plague in China will compel the German Crown Prince to abandon his visit to Peking and to viii South America or the colonies in Africa.
Tt is pointed out in official quarters in Berlin that this is pure journalistic guess-work. The Pri is engaged upon a tour of Asia, not of the world, and even if some deviation in the route became necessary the trans-Siberian route can be reached vii Vladivostok.—
Reuter.
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