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Show SYMPTOMS PUZZLE PLAGUE EXPERTS PEK1N, Feb. S. A letter received here from a British volunteer physician physi-cian In Harbin says the plague becomes be-comes more puzzling in Its symptoms every day. A thoiough examination is made of all persons placed In quarantine, quar-antine, and the physicians carefully segregate those in whom the heart symptoms are considered mild. Nevertheless, Nev-ertheless, some of these patients arc Invariably found to have died. Foreign For-eign doctors in many places aro disheartened dis-heartened over the indifference, Incapacity In-capacity and corruption of the officials, offi-cials, who refuse to learn from tho experience of Harbin, and need to bo brought face to face with similar condition con-dition before they will surrender the work of combatting the disease to the sanitary officers. Dispatches from Harbin say that while the disease appears ap-pears to be decreasing there, it has broken out among the troops at Several Sev-eral places and threatens to spread. The afflicted soldiers have not been Isolated, but continue in barracks. Many deaths occur dally at Tlon-Tsln Tlon-Tsln and the medical officers believo it will share tho fate of the Manchuria Man-churia towns. The masses here declare de-clare Pekin, although surrounded, wjll not be extensively afflicted because of the presence of the emperor. |