The Hongkong Telegraph.
NEW SERIES No. 8457
Telegrams.
THE PLAGUE. SITUATION AT MUKDEN CRITICA L.
ANOTHES DOCTOR DEAD..
HELP ASKED FROM SHANGHAL,
(THE TELEGRAPH CORRESPON-
DENT.
Tientsin, Jan. 27. 8.50 p.m. ›
The situation at Makden has one noute and pritical. The plague is pro ving appallingly contagious, overshadow.
ing inasurably bubonic plagas, small
pox, typhoid fever, and even etiolera.
One hundred and sixty deaths oceur- ro in the Russian City, Harbin, yestoning. The deathy (it is impossible 1.ba so) in the native city are esti
ated to us more than doubts.
晚海初丩正年三能
ed when epidemics are about, could be aBlicted.
A telegram he just coma that all record and third class passengers are to be stopped from traveling to Chibli Province, the Japanese are being carnestly appealed to, that they may stop all passengers from the north, for it is the railway which is the sore curse in this case." Had the Russions' only stopped all Chinese passengers from Khailar nud Mandhuis, logo would have entered central Manchurin, ns it has now done, and wheu Harbin was attacked drastic measures would have saved the ronth.
+
A mange has come in this evening maying that Dr. Meany of Tivutsin. who was here with us for Christums Eve, nid who went to Harbin to assist, has fallen a victim and also that one
his Chinese astistants has seunbed.
HOW INFECTION 18 SPREAD.
of
tein traffic shall be controlled or To slow how needful it is that the Great regret is. felt in both foreign A man ran away from a plague stricken alolutely stoppet, loro is an instance. and nalivu circles at the death of Mr. in Tichling, some forty miles Ist Shi Ming, reported this evening from here, on the S.M.R., and stayed from Mutton. Ho lived only a little in a lodging house in this city, where, longer than Mr. Jackson, with whom
as far as can be known, no plogie lust and Mr. Mesny hò had done herois broken out. To-day ten men werd work. No praise is 17 great for these carried out from that an house devi, in one day, as the result of that one man's Mr. Hau Sini Ming was odutated invisit. Tnger, who cap from Hongkong:
the house, before the authorities got to The Contrat anturitios are oriously now of the traile, probably tearing alaimed by the outbak. They have the seeds of death wherever they stop. Hent urgent telegrams to Shanghai ank- ing for foreign doctors, No doubt is felt that many will volunteer,
bravo men.
The Trans-Siberian passengers who wera thineet have been forwarded from Mukder to Balny and Harbin
MAIL SUPPLEMENT.
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FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 3, 1911.
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ANOTHER WIN FOR"
ENGLAND.
TELEGRAPH ConnESTUNDENT
london, Jan. 20, 10 20 p.
觀三月二英治香
ed to expectorate over ororything, h friends crowding round all the lie. In
Leaving Chefoc--the pingus. INTERNATIONAL FOOT Joy Ity that are being led ther one house, elevou people, all dend It
ridden Flynlung portret | reads like a chapter from Defor.
Tuesd y. bo arrived in duel The 1894 volume of the "Chinn curse ut Teir gau. The Ger- Medical Missionary Joust, p.179, min authoritice, who, as will be gives the falling doseription of the eco from the appended cable, [THE condition of Canton during the epidemic them. There was no Sanitary Board, are taking very prie ution, în- the governmert adoptól no sanitary or
formed the locl ngent that the preventivo mosures,, hero novese I mut submit to a five isolation of cases, nu removal of filth or days' quaranti e. rubbish, no water supply, no system of The head office wa commu-i-tional drainage..... Chinese medicine and Chinese superstitions had full and eated with, and orders were unrestricted sway. Hongkong suffered returned that the vessel was to at the same time, and it will surpriso ignore si glan and proceed at one to know that with all the efforts once upon her voyage. of the shorities there, the plague disappeared from Cauton jutun son as it did frum. Hangkong
apparently, the a vantago lay with the European system was in the provention
513 PER ANNUM,
SINGLE COPT 25 CENTS.
IMPERIAL TOUR,
OROWN PRINCE WILL NOT VISIT FAR EAST.
"TELLARE" CORRESPONDENT
London, Jan. 81, 10.5 p.m. The Far East is to be disappointed,
by the sturdy sons and devsted daughters of the Old Country. He has real'sed, not for the first more co vincingly then over time, it is true, but perhaps before, the reality of legal lan ink which unifies the British Empire; and lo ha ben wel in its expectation of a visit from His interna-comed as warmly by mon wherial Highnes, the German Crywa were our bitter fees ten youst It has been decided to abandon the ag as by those who fought tour in India, and the Prince will now un 'er the Uin Jack in that return home from Calcutta.
Ee hrs 'eft a South fic hip atorn and protracted conflict
stregthened the myir. Euch ier and mo o loyal for his pre- sence, and to the extent helas
The Eglish team has again
football match. beaten France in the The result was. England .........37 pointe: Franco.......nil. At halftime the score read:
She as now Hongkong, coming direct from the region of the plague out
ar ived at 5-
beak. Her pople are in the
There it is said that some 20,000 coffins stances some people might not which marked the Canton attack discharged. Un'or the circum of the wide spread of the disease Col ny. Her cargo is being
those who were unable to afford to bayrd her as a d sir.ble unit were distributed, meaning doubtless lo them, the epidemic lasting from January in the arbour. to any only. In the early stages of
We have given a great del
DOMINION OF CANADA.
MAGNIFICENT REPTION IN LONDON. DUKE OF CONNAUGHT SAILS
IN AUTUMN, '
[TUR "TRITONAPI" CORRESPONDENT
London, Jan. 30, 10 p.m. I is Royal
igh as the
the attack in Hongkong we have Dr. of space to rows of the prograDuke of Connaught has had a Lowson's word for it that the Tungfti e p'ague; but we have also at mag ificent to iption in though under government supervision, pointed cut that caro" is I ocdur. Wah hospital, conducted by Chinese,
the community. Dr. Kerr tells of a without, with ng in. my way was a serious menses to the health of natural revertheless, and hospital also under Chinern manage to exaggerate, we; and many ment, where "a hundred patients lying leading members of this com
through u hu try at the Canadian a poitmen
General Fat'sfaction is folt
London, dan 26-Reuter's Agency
don tr-day ne lairs him with the "conques!" which he Poyal Highness biore home
its joyful and groti ful applause with him, and for which I on-
amid the sympathy of the whole nation.-"Pall Mall Cazette."
THE THUNDERER.'
THE THAMES DREADNOUGHT LAUNCHED TO-DAY.
"
bishop of Canterbury.
The ceremony will be performed by
Mrs
Davidson, the wife of the Arch-
“MR. SPEAKER."
was he'd at to Guildhall, when A luncheon is his. For our a large and representative es- gembly est nded him a most Tens of thousands of people are
en the floor, ahost without attention, in
(THE “TELEJRAPH" CORIESPONDENT] uraxding this city to make purchases charges, was a condition of things which is time some restriction was the midst of the filth of their own disunity with us, think that it
enthusiastic welcom":
London, Jan. $1, 19.5 p.m. for the New Year's feaning, and who did not commend native methods even placed on vess 1s ente ig this gratu'ation on the succe e which H.M.S. Thunderer vill by hunched in The disease is simply appalling knows how ma infection they will to their own people. The contrast les port from the worth. If I sind att del his fouth African the Thames.
The spa elr s were fu! of con-Navy will be made to-morrow, who
“A powerful addition to the British in its tagit qualities and its evey any with them 1. The Chinese presented in Hongkong between the tau, nearer the stricken region, visit. rapidity. Both surally sapervenial and family ties are so strong that authods of antires nud of Europeans as four to six hours after sont symptons that coming from the country must they wore scen and experienced by so Set in Blood and frath isette from the wall and sen his friends, o peinlly if any, las promed an impression on judge the danger, & nside:s it and cos quently more fitted to ionth at every breath-for the they are jok. Our good-officials would the minds of many intelligent people in ni cesary to impos quarantine, ciobes simply eat away the lungs and, have an herautean task to opwith the favone of Western medicine, which the recessity is no less for the breath highly contgims
fentful visitation, if it gets out of lund'
Our Commissioner for Foreign commend this extract to Total Shen will have a lasting effect." Wo Affairs, Han Ta-ren, is doing his very Tan-ho nad his friends. Another strik-
Hongkong. best in trying circumstances, an so aloing difference was seen in the statis are others. One who has been very ties of mortality during the epidemic Soinething very like a pani provaikinstrumental in arranging things, is the of 1834. The percentages of deaths, at Tientsin. The foreign elementer tireless and energetis Mr. He though confessedly not numerous enough ou the South bank of the river (the-ing, a most intelligent Cantonese, to warrant dogmatic assertion, are yet British German and French)' are pr
who was educated in Hongkong. tested day and night by a cordon of
highly instructive. Of those attacked, troops and pilice... The British, French Dr. Joksne has been appoints to diod: of Indians, 77, of Japanese, 66, amongst the Chiness, 93.4 per cent and German troops are being employed, supersie operations at the Chinese of Eurasians, 100, of Europeana, 1.28 the Tientsin volunteers, disbanded over Railway Station. The Chinese Goveru-only 1 two years ago, are to be re-eiralled and ment showing ao disposition to stint the police have bem argely increwed funds for the work of Dr. Christie and in strength. All who can got away those camperating with him. Anum are leaving the port, and the Germanber of Chimera inns and lodging houses Minister at Peking has warned his hayo beeu carefully disinfected.-N. C. compatriots that it would be bast to D. Neuisi send the women and children south.
PŘRCAFTIOSA,
The Sputi Manchuris Railway has also established military carlons and picket lines. The Mitsui Bussun Kaishi and the Yokohama Specio Bank, as Mukden have practically suspowied Business:
The Siberian mails on arrival at Shanbuildon are spleted to twelve hours' disinfection.
PLAGUE SPREADING
CHINESE DYING IN
HUNDREDS.^
[THE "TELEGRAPH COMESPONDENT
Tientsin, 28th January,
1.45 p..
Latest reports resol ushere emphasis the fact that tire plugue is spreiling to Eastern Mongolia.
:
Later.
·CHINÁ' AND THE PLAGUE.
EARLY HISTORY.
Is there, such a thing as lack? If there is, then Chia nul those who dwoll within its horders have, for the past three or four years, fallen in with a variety which any tafely be called bad. We need not realf the list. Its latest
addition is a widespread attack of plage
cf Kachao has not informed We presume the Government the Hongkong Government of the moveme ts of the vessel in question. If it has it appears to on s'rarge imperturbability anchor here. which permitted the steamer to
NO SIGN OF APPEARANCE
AT TSINGTAU.
learns that the visit of the King atsi Queen Mary to Ireland and Scotland will not affect the appointment of the Duka of Connaught as Governor- Genoml of Caunda. It is understood that is Royal Highness will, sail for Ottawa in the autumn.-N. C. D. NOLDS.
END OF A GREAT IMPERIAL MISSION,
Rr. Hos. JAMES, LOWT.ER AGAIN ELECTED, "TELEGRAPH " CORRESPONDENT
(THE
London, Jan. 81, 10.5 p.m:
The Rt. Hon. James Lowther has
been again clicted Speaker of the Houco
of Commons.
Mr. Ginnell, Nationalist M.P, for
Afer a four which will re- main for ever memorab'o is the
the Empire, the Duke of Con- history of South Afric and of
re-aughtariv d n London on the North Westments, Las protestod ngnimat
28th of December..
diecase first appeared in Manimis. It is more than ten years in the Fortunately men gre samostat wiser now than they were then. They know known German regid nt,nds One of our read r', a well- how easy it is to kill plague bacilli under
Thru or four va the following cable with right circumstances. hours of direct sunlight is enough. It ference to the plague, which he is the passage of the germ through has ree ived from Tsingtau living bodies which alone preserves its "Tsirgtan, Jan. 30, virulence. Dr. Daly thought that the winter freezing and the long hours of tau) are utt rly false..
Peports of plague at Tsing suring sunshine kad, with sanitary alk, savad Norchwang. We hope our Chinese friends will never again object to measures intended for the saving of their lives, whether here or elsewhere The present crisis is one that may tax our united powers.
The Balmoral Catle, on the appointment, alleging that partiality which the Duke and Inchess has been shown. Pri cers Patrici, sailed ou of Connaught, accompanied by
Mr. Lawther filled the Speaker's chair with conspicuous ability since
Prinoo,
and the North is doubtless responsibis The outbreak of plagne in Manchuria,
will bo fatt, particularly among German for this curtailment, of the Crown Prince's tour. Much disappointment residents, that the Prince is thus com- shoras for the prosant, pelled to abandon his visit to those
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT,
We are courteously informed by tho German Consul, Dr. E. A. Voretisol, that he is in receipt of an oficial tolo gmm from Borlin announcing tho abandonment of the Royal tour in tho Far East "for this year," Their Roya Highnesses the Crown Prince and suite will not prooved farther than Calcults.
The words "for this year" may be taken to mean that the complotion of the
of the plagao in the North have dis- Royal itinerary is contemplated nt como futura date-probably when all signs -
appeared.
THE PLAGUE.
NO DISORGANISATION OF
SIBERIAN RAILWAY.
Moura, Cock & Son courteously in- form us that they wirod Dalny the fol lowing.
organisation Siberian traffic. Flosse "Conflicting reports, rempooling dist wira latest information and probabilities. regarding through. traffio.**
The reply is as follows:-No pro bability disorganisation Siberian through traffio. Dairon steamors subject four days' detention at Shanghai. Are ro | arranging schedule.”
HONGKONG AND THE PLAGUE
The next point of interest is in con- tion with the plague provention" incasares adopted in Hongkong. It will be remembered that a short time Lugand forwarded to Shanghai, with ago the Governor of Hongkong, Si a very courteous covering letter, soray adopted in the Colony, and theas ware somewhat frigidly acknowledged Our
"We are frio of plague up to October 11 to open the Unionis05, when the Liberals were returned details of plague prevention aros
the present.
ev ry precaution and we do not The authori ies are taking
exprel dancer.
"Contradict newspaper re-
HIS MAJESTY THE KING Prt immda'e'y."
LIBELLED,
EDITOR TO BE TRIED IN LONDON.
in the worth, Manchuria sects to bo thoroughly infected: dares have hap- pened at Tientsi, Peking is almost burdering on panis, and many people in Shanghai are rightly calling for all too protection which quarantine or the in- spection of ships on give. That is the [THE TELEGRAPH CORRESPONDENT The Chinese are dying by the lia-position at the inament. When plague dreds, and a panis lns set in among the first began its ravages in China is man "poplo romaining,
knows. The earliest reliable nccounts from foreign sources dato back only as far as 1884. The disease was epidemic
Lordon, Jan. 20, 10 20. p.m. in Fngland trough the state- A oration has been caused
Majesty the King.
A STRIKING FACT
In the prevailin plague situation in North ard Fouth Manchuria the one fact that stat ds out in bell relief is that so far not a Japanese has been reported as stricken down by the epidemic. doubly strarge, because, since This strange fact is made
Pa liament of Fouth Africi, to power. His impartiality and delicate morning, and the Royal travel reached Portsmouth again this
lera landed mild the roar of elure and the cheers of the m ny spect: tors whol ad astm bled to wel ome them home again.
•
handling of the direction of the Houte
was a source of entisfaction parties. Mr. Giadell has lately made bitself
conicaons by asking a number of questions on various subjects, including the Canton-Kowloon tailway, which has apparently, aroused his deep
intorest.
esteemed follow-citizen, Sir Havilland
The situation at Teolow is of the most serious character. and apparently it is impossible to prevent the spread of in Canton in 1950, sftor which the city | moits made refeeling o: Bis the outbreak of the accursed f whole of the tour in the South"] spesial cable from our London correr.matters on which wo ara distinctly, be-
the dread disease throughout Slanting.was spared till 1894. Twenty years be
Makden, Jan. 13.
Littlo notice is taken of sporadia pasHH,
of course, whion isolation might sayo the lib llig King George, the fact, are now struggling, with and Extra Equerry to the King ish further enlightenment, as the folloy its cost, but neither the magnitude of
city. It requires something about which
ho charge is that of
a
Christmas vacation at Hongkong and de Sansporez, has been spending his
himself of the opportually to enquire with his usual public. spirit he availed
very fally into the methods of pingua prevention there adopted, and obtained Lord Analy, who proceeded
a quantity of useful information from spreally to Portsmouth to wel-
the Medical Officer of Health for tho o me the Royal travellers on
Colony which he is placed at the ser behalf of the King, tv lled up
vica of the Council... If we are to to town with the Duke and Du
judge from the pablished material. h ́es together with the marm-
·SEDITION CHARGE. says the "Blinnghal Mercury," Shang- hai doas not scan to be vary far bos
guished party throughout the brrs of the suite who have been TO-DAY'S TRIAL IN LONDON,
hind Hongkong in its methods or in the in attendance on the dietin-
persistency of the Health Office in its In yesterday's iseno we published a
campaign. There seem to be but tra Three more deaths have orgurred here fore that, that is to say in the early in spite of most active efforts on the seventies, plague was known to be en-
pestilence at Harbin followed African Dominicas. There were ondent to the affect that the editor of hid the Colon. The Unlony insists part of the energetic doofers.
As a result of publication, by Changchun, Mukden and Lord Ham It n of Dalzell, Lord-charge of libelling His Majesty the dwellings with a flea-killing preparation tho" Liberator" had been arrested on a on the washing out of all Chinesa demie in Yanan al on the Island of the trial takes place, on Wed-finally at Dairen, Japanese phy-in-Waiting; Sir Fra: c's Hop King, he having published an article to AT THE MANCHURIAN What happens when there is a serious
Hainan, rays the "Shanghai Mercury" resday, of the editor of the siciars have worked actively wood, Permuent Under-Secret the effect that King George had con-
once every three months. This is CAPITAL
outbreak in a native city is instructivo. Liberator,
wholesale measure which we should find and fearlessly right in the midst ary fr. the Colonies; Commo-tracted a Morganatio marriage in Malta.
it very difficult to adopt an account of the infected localities and, indore rakine Wemyss, A.D.C.
The papers by yesterday's mail fura- both of the size of the undertaking and
ing paragraph shows.
tho.task nor its cost should deter us it in the opinion of the Medical Moor.it is necessary to be undertaken. For it. ANTI-PATRIOTIC JOURNAL would be cheap insurance. Tha
IN LONDON.
8003nd point on which Hongkong. appears to be aliout of us fa in the regard to periodical calle, I the Libera- all houses."
Scotland Yard has taken action with pravisior of covered metal dustbins for With us the Connell tor," which, it is stated, contains sedi-urges such provision and the rate at tious matter. Edward F. Mylius, 10 which it provides bina is very slow, but siding in Notting Hill, has been arrested as yet neither are land lords compelled WHAT CONQUEST DRINGS. in connection with the sale or publication to provide such as part of the permanent
HE HOME?
of the paper. He was on Wednesday fixtures of dwellings nor does the com- Their Royal Highnesses are vans, sitting as
(Dec. 28) taken before Sir Samuel munity provide them, and apparently, bringing back with them a chambers, the proedinge being private. vacation judge in
one of thoro two things is most by Dr. Clark's statement. This is a mat thousard tiring memories; The prisoner's rooms at Notting Hill ter for consideration. ard doubtles, by and by when had boon searched, and he was taken in resp nas to the formal wol- international" journal, darles a good the Duke 'faes nt the Guildhallinto custody at Shepherd's Bush
come of the City of London, be deal of abuse to our Royal Family and The "Liberator," which is called an
will tel us smothing of the to British institutions in general. In scenes he has witness d in those the November issue there is the revival far away lede, and of the of a baseless report about the King, Empire of the brave endeavour, dealt with in this equntry is by revoly-Shanghat are now mode weekly, les
pondent that the only way he can be The steamor connections Dairons patristic, pride, and Imperial tion"
on Sunday from gach endi
I am very glad to be able to write there can be no doubt at all to anakon paper laying alleged that
that the Gorominent has invitel Dr.
QUARANTINE?
Christie, who has had upwards of thirty phisticated Chinese mind to which death some years ago in Ma'ta.
a sense of hygienic alarm in the unso-morganatic marriage took place yenra' active experience in this city, to certificates are unknown. But when yet as their advisor and director with.] deaths par day riso from units to tene, regard to the plagas. Lo happens to and from tens to hundreds, then the city. kavo, as his colleagues in his work here, idols have an outing. Bingly, or in Dr. Alexander Young, why hand, procension they go through the streets formerly, nol oxperience in Central prosimably that they may be able to Africa, and Dr. Jackson, a man of sea for theirselves the offcots of, tho' epesial attainments in the knowledge of dod visitation. If such heroi mon- Eastern diseases and epidemios. The aures are ineffective, native tradition Chinese Government Hospital has at and ingenuity is`able to suggest other able man in Dr. Wang, and the expedients. Poople aro. then said to Japanese are lending some first class dio bocance. the demons of the other
mon.
VESSEL FROM THE NORTH
IN PORT.
REFUSED TO ACCEPT DETEN TION AT TSINGTAU,
the dotermination of brave men Major H. C, Lowther, Private under an enemy's fire, for the ecr-tary; Captain T. H. Rivers mastery of the situation against Bulkeley, Equerry; Captain R. the most dreadful form of visita-F. 8. Grant. Attache; Captain tion invented by the awful E.B. Worthington Medical At Avenger,-"Manchurian Daily tendart; and Miss Poly, in at News."
tendance upon the Duchees of Connaught,
CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS.
·
AN UNFAVOURABLE REPORT.
abating. There were 160 deaths in Poking Jan. 20.-The plague in not Harbin yesterday and slight, general ingressos in North Clian: The dis- world aro in want of coolies. The exact strickon north has arrived in
A steamer from the pluguo-ozed in travelling southward: The city has been divided into dic-namber is known in some instancosport aft r having refu ed on her tricts, with control hospitals, while For one place it is a thousand, for an- rapamtion hospitals for those who other more or lese as the case may be. southward voyage to remsin un- porienced medical students and thore is The Governancat is balling out inex- are down with the diseas are alts To Recure immunity for themselves, der quarantine at one of her urgent need of a hundred foreign ex- being established. It will be hard people who are miso put outside their ports of call. work, but tho Vizeroy and his dooms offerings of food,, inoense, ote, for assistants aro nating splendidly, now the passing demons, with straw and large shipping company here. ho steamer belongs to, a that the horror of the situation has water for their, harves! But, says a The port of o li which imposed / Manchurian refugees who are flocking encrmopa valu to the Biijab and there is a suggestion from a corres
diwnol on them. In fact none of us missionary.dastor,, what is to be expect- ponid, pomaior, think that Makdon, ad when in a faal, filthy, stinking hole quarantino on her was Teing pity that is usually ag free and favour. gguan sirlokon with the disease is allow. I tau.
ports..
CAUSES OF INFECTION,
It is recognized that the bands of
owing to sucosalve links of contact southwards are spreading the disease NG, D. NOGI
THE PLAGUE,
STEAMER CONNECTIONS WITH THE INTERNA TIONAL SIBERIAN TRAIN.
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