Peking, Feb. 10.
The plague is spreading generally throughout Manchuria and to a slight extent in North China. The position "at Changchun is worse jin, where the bacilli is becoming attenuated and the epidemic is abating.
Farther slight increases are reported at Tientsin and Chefoo, but the position in other centres is unaltered.
The Government has allotted for ph prevention purposes the balance of the million taels intended for expenditure in connexion with the visit of the German Crown Prince, approximately Tls. 750,000.—Our Own Correspondent.
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