Tokio, Oct. 13.
The "Jiji" reports that typhus is decimating Koreans at Pingyang and also that a thousand Japanese ihave been attacked of whom 280 ihave succumbed. The district is paralysed.—Reuter.
Messrs. Sun Tan-lin and Lo Wen-kan received the First Class Order of the Ta She Chia Ho, Gen. Chang Shan-tseng and Admiral Li_Ting-hsin the Order of Merit, Second Class, Messrs. Tang Erh-ho and Hsu Chien the Order of Ta She, First_ Class, Generals Chang Huei-chi, Yen Hsishan, Li Hou-chi, Lu Yung-hsiang and Yang Tseng-hsin the Nine Lion Sword, and Generals Chiang Yen-hang, Feng Vu-hsiang, Tsai Cheng-hsun, Hsiao Yau-nan and Ho Feng-lin the Order of Merit, Secong Class.—Reuter.
Pexine, Oct. 15.—A mandate issu-last night confers posthumous honours on Dr. Wu. Ting-fang and allots $10,000 towards his funeral
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