Show PNEUMONIC PLAGE IS RAGING OVER CHINA By International News Service TOKIO Jan 19 The l-The The pneumonic plague plague-is is i raging aging in northern China and already a a number of foreign missionaries missionaries missionaries mission mission- aries have succumbed to It Advices received receive l today from Manchuria Manchuria Man Man- churia said that the natives are dIring dying dying dy dy- ing by the hundreds and that the laxity laxity laxity lax lax- ity of ot the government in taking preventive preventive preventive pre pre- steps has led to internal strife strite bordering on civil war The epidemic broke out in Shansi hansi province spread thence into Chill Chili province and is now threatening the thickly populated district along the Pekin railroad Into the affected districts and are risking their own lives In an effort ort to check the pestilence The pneumonic plague the most deadly to the human race known to science is the same disease which ravaged Manchuria in hi 1910 when 60 SO- persons died It was not checked until American aid was called in |