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Show THOUSANDS. Qf-BODIES Qf-BODIES BURNED HARBIN, Feb. 5 Already nearly G.000 bodlea of victims of the plague have been burned or burled In the outskirts of Harbin. Forty-eight hundred hun-dred of these came from the Chinese town, and a thousand from tho Russian Rus-sian quarter. Yesterday sixteen stacks of coffins and seven pits, filled with bodies and oiled logs, blazed outside the ton The mortality among' the physicians and the hospital attendants Is high, considering the means taken for their protection, and doctors, nurses and orderlies are succumbing to the disease. di-sease. The sanitary authorities hopo soon to test serum of their own Manchuria Man-churia bacllla, as the foreign importations impor-tations have proved ineffective. |