Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-02-24 | Page 8 | Deadly Plague Threatens All of North China

T I DEALY PLAGUE THREATENS AL ALL j OF NORTH CHINA CHINAm I. I I m I J r- r Pneumonic E Epidemic pH 1 P Passes asses Great Wall and anti Spreads Wal I Southward ard i. i I MISSIONARIES SS O ARES TRYl TRY J i TO HALT PROGRESS l I t Disease Spreads With i i Great and Is Fatal Fata in il I Rapidity 1 A All I al J 1 H Hr Ii r I Boston Feb 23 Thc The pneumonic p plague has broken broleen out in Shansi l provInce province PIO ince China and has assumed such proc proportions pro pro- c 1 p portions that all aU North orth China Is se seriously sc- sc e- e threatened Advices AdvIce to this effect were received toda today h by the American board of or commissioners tor or foreign mission missions from Crom members of ot Us Its s staff star in North orth China The fhe he reports ot of the missionaries ox- ox press the fear foar that thal was felt In this country when tho the appearance of oC this most deadly pestilence w was s first rc- rc p ported parted in dispatches to the Associated Press In December Unchecked ed in northern China It would prove pro e In the opinion of ot the board more devastating de than famine flood food and war ar combined Toda Today's s mall mail mal advices nd from missionary centers had hd been awaited anxiously sh i. i Virulent ut A statement issued b by the tho board says This pneumonic pla plague ue is particularly particularly virulent Practically no ono one who lj becomes omes a victim of It I recovers It I is tho same saro disease that ra ravaged e Mongolia Mon Mon- Ion Ion- golia goJa five years ears ago and md carried 0 off oooo or people before It was checked In Mongolia Mon Ion It seems to have started golia golta Ola this year er and has been devastating ing g tho the part of ot Shansi province north of the great wall and now nm has broken through There are arc five ve passes through the the wall wall If I all aU but one were closed to tr travel ol and that one carefully guarded with a a. a medical station staton with proper inspection In Inspection In- In and quarantine tho the problem of ot keeping leeping the pl plague ue out of or Shansi and the rest of ot China China might be solved Such preventive measures were urged but there tere Is as yet et no guarantee that such protective measures will be bo employed Fight t Plague The American boards board's nearest station sta sta- tion to the Infected region is It Its medical missionary there thoro Dr Per Per- cy T. T Watson at the head of ot a unit made up of ot Chinese assistants loft left Immediately Im Jm- lin- lin mediately upon receipt of or a telegram from flom tho the capital of ot tho province Tal- Tal asking for tor aid with wih tho the expectation exp ex ex- p of ot going north to help fight t tl tl j plague at fifteen teen miles mie tI crun one of oC the main passes through th the great wall wal I Signs of oC the plague near the capital cap cap- ital Ial hold held him there as that cl city t had been stripped of ot doctors who had gone to tho the north There Thero are oven rumors Of or cases of oC the tho plague near the mission there was busy pre- pre to attack atack it t