The local Russian press is in receipt of information from Mongolia of an alarming outbreak of pneumenic plague in Central Halha in the Tse-Tsen-han Aimak. Isolated cates of plague have already been Leported curlier but the Mongolian Government docs not seem to have puld much attention, During the last days of November, the plague ]was carried into one of the monasteries, nome 100 miles east of Tse-'Teen-han, Tu two days over 500 deaths were registered and the remainder of the population is fleeing in panic into the interior of the country, probably carrying infection with them. Sambeis is filled with refugees from the west. According, to advice from Urga, a party of doctors, headed by doctor Dudunaloff have left for the stricken district with a large quantity of anti-plague scrum, The situation is aggravated by the fact that this district is one of the most densely populated, a large number of monasteries being nated there, around which usually centres the larger part of the Mongolian population. Adjoining it [the Norbo-Ulon hochun, one of the richest in cattle and sheep, which are annually exported in a large number to the U.S.S.R. through Ulehun end Rorzia and to North Manchuria id Manchuli and Hailar stations. Another large item of export trade is tarabagan skins, common carriers of the plague germ.
As the medical service in Mongolia is still in its infancy and the medical staff greatly limited, no Proper anti-plague measures on the Part of the Mongolian Government bbe lasked for and so the auth-louties of the North Manchuria are tly worried about the possibi-of plague being carried into manchuria, and are now devising, nwastiree for its prevention,
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