Changchun, Oct. 19.
With the present epidemic of bubonic plague continuing unabated, Changchun has become a dead city.
The Metropolitan Police have for-hidden people to go outdoors without nose-and-mouth masks end have closed down all places of entertainment such as theatres, cinemas, dance-halls, shooting galleries, mahjongg clubs, billiard saloons, Churches have also closed upon instructions received from the authorities here.
"The latest victim of.the epidemic is a young waitress in a Manchu restaurant She broke out in a fever yesterday evening and died before dawn. The twenty-two customers in the restaurant were all locked in by the authorities. Houses in the adjoining blocks were isolated.—Havas.
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