Peking, Nov, 4.
Foreigners who have just returns from Taiyuanfu, in Shans where, according to Chinese reports, plague has affected more than 20 towns and villages, claiming more than 2,000 lives, state that these reports. are much exaggerated, Bubonie plague, they say, undoubt= edly exists, but the deaths are nothing ear the number reported, and the authorities in the effected areas anticipate that they will soam suppress the outbreak—Reuter, Owing to the general desire to resume traffic on the Peking-Muke den Railway and the impossibility. of arriving at satisfactory term says the Chinese press, the Feng tien authorities have decided to rum their trains to Shanhaikuan from Mukden and vice versa, while trains from Peking will proceed as far north as Luanchow. Passengers will be required to take a short walk im the event of their desiring to en" train for Mukden, a9 will Mukdat people who want to get to Peking. Both trains will meet near
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