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Show TORCH FOR PLAGUE VICTIMS. Fear of Oeath Overcomes Chinese Superstition Agslnat Cremation. IVklnir.-Tiicrn la notlreai.' activity activ-ity by the Chinese government to stay the spread of the phiuue, and sunllnrv measures nn being strictly enforced In nil the towns where a few weeks :l:o the disease was ullowed full swing. Instructions have been Issued that every vl I In e- hum its dead. The panic and four of the plmsue have- overridden the Chinese superstition super-stition against cremation of the ImuIIos of the victims, and now nlmosl dally the lurch Is npiMleil in piles of hastily constructed rofflns. among which are often seen bodies wrapped ouly In shrouds. |