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Show oo HUNDREDS DYING IN PLAGDEJHSTRICT CHEFOO. China, Feb. 14. The Presbyterian mission here is cut off from outsldo points, as it is in the center cen-ter of the plague district, which has been Isolated. Tho disease has not penetrated the mission compound. HARBIN, Feb. 14. Freight cars aro serving as segregation prisons for those contaminated with the plague. These Include whole detachments of soldiers. Russian officials report the railway zone as practically free and they Intend to resume traffic with quarantine regions ten days hence. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. Plague has caused a total of GOO deaths at Chefoo, China, and more than ono thousand in tho province of Shang-tung, Shang-tung, in which Chefoo Is situated, according ac-cording to a cablegram received by the state department today from tho American consul. Governor General Forbes, of tho Philippine Islands, today cabled tho secretary of war that Dr. Richard Strong and Dr. Oscar Teaguo, the American plague specialists, who are being sont to Manchuria by the American Amer-ican National Red Cross, sailed from Manila for China today. |