Sianfu Panic-stricken as Pest Advances Peking, Nov. 30.
Bubonic plague is still ravaging the province of Shensi, in north-west China.
The pestilence broke out early in the autumn in the neighbouring province of Honan, and, carried by 'a huge army of rats which marched over hill and valley leaving a trail of death in their wake, quickly spread to Shansi and Shensi.
Several weeks ago medical experts und health administrators wore despatched to the stricken areas, but they have failed to check' the epidemic, which is leaping on from dlsteit fo dlatrit, causing hundreds Fatalities in the three provinces named have now run into scores of thousands and the plague is within 'a few miles of Sianfu, the Shensi pital, where the utmost alarm prevails, Should it reach this ensely-crowded city, the death-roll would be even more appalling Reuter.
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