The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-01-17
GREAT ALARM.
All Europe Appalled, mt the Fearful Ca
iamity in India.

All Europe Appalled, mt the Fearful Ca
iamity i'm India.
Copyright 1897 by Associated Press.
London. Jan. 16.--For some time past
everything has pointed To the fact that
India ls face 10 face with the most ap-
palling calamity since the British oc-
cupation The spread OF the Bubonic
plague came almost with dramatic
suddenness on the famine, and created
throughout Europe a feeling of the
greatest alarm. Up to the present the
two visitatlons have been confined 10
separate areas. but il Is extremely prob
able that the plague will ere long
reach the famine districts, owing to the
impossibility OF preventing the migra-
tion of the panic-stricken natives, and
should this turn out to be the case,
competent authorities look forward to
terrible mortality, as the plague germs
will find fruitful soil In the emaciated
natives. The Indian government ap-
pears hardly to have forsren such
gigantic undertaking as that of reliev-
ing the necessities Of more than S0,00o.-
900 people. and its ready acquiscence
To the proposal To appeal To private
charity indicates that II now recognizes
the insuiilciency Of its arrangements.
The sympathy OF Great Britain Is now
thoroughly aroused and relief funds
have been started IN all the chief
towns The Mansion house fund Is ap'
preaching G90.0oO. and II Is hoped that
the total of the fund will reach at least
eiO0,000 (s3,500.000). which was the
amount subscribed for the relief of the
sufferers OF the last famine. The news
papers. however, urge that some more
drastic measure he adopted, and one
of the weekly papers suggests that
parliament vote "a big grant or lend IN
dia G10.O00.000.
A representative Of the associated
press called on the lord mayor. George
+. Phillips. after the meeting at the
Mansion house to-day. AT that meet
ing n resolution, moved by the Duke OF
Connaught. recognizing 1t tn he pub
lie duty to assist in the work of extend-
ing the relief measures. and motion
by Henry Hobhouse. NJ. r.. which In
vited the county officials and clergy TO
cooperate in the relief work, were
adopted. The lord mayor said he was
hopful that Americans would cooperate
and he wrote the following statement,
which he asked the associatd press To
publish in the United States:
The lord mayor of London VIII re-
ceive with profound gratitude from the
people OF alf1tT1td INV ''f'
inc. funds. He asks the royal family TO
contribute to the fund
George Faudet Phillips, lord mayor.
From the European point of view,
however, the plague is a matter or
grayer concern than the famine. All
continental governments are adopting
precautionary measures at their ports
and the import from India OF rags
linen and other articles capable OF con-
yeying the disease Is prohibited and II
IL announced that a European confer
ence will be held at Rome To consider
the adoption of combined action 10 pre-
vent the plague from invading Europe
The Russian government has sent
doctors to Persia To watch the progress
of the disease and If II appears either
In Persia or Afghanistan the Russian
frontier will he Immediately closed.
The Indian government has dispatched
the director general of the medical ser
vice 10 study the plague at Bombay,
and two chief officials of the Egyptian
sanitary staff have also gone there TO
arrange for measures To minimize the
chances Of the spread of the plague To
Mecca, which, II IL occurred. would
probably mean the invasion OF Egypt,
The Egyptian government has decided
that II the plague shall appear in Ara
bia no Egyptian pilgrims VIII be al
lowed to return until the disease there
shall have become extinct. Moreover
no pilgrims would In that ease be al
lowed to leave Egypt unless he could
prove he had means Of subsistence for
a six months stay in Hedias. otherwise
the land Of the pilgrimage.
The Mecca pilgrimage Is now a
source of the greatest anxiety 10 the
European governments, and u Is urged
on many sides that the pilgrimaEes
ought To be stopped. Ii appears that
at the international sanitary council al
COnstantinople the Austrian delegate
proposed that the pilgrimages from In
dia should be prohibited. but the Turk
ish delegate opposed this on the ground
that ii would trench on the essential
part OF the Mohammedan faith.
The Daily News published long ar
ticle advocating prohibition of the pill
grmage, and suggests that the Euro
pean ministers at Tcheran and ST. Pc
tersburg induce the shah and the car
TO proclaim the closing of the chan
nels of pilgrimage. while the Turkish
authorities close the port of Jeddah.
Great Britain. under treaty arrange
ments. can prohibit AfRhanis, an pill
grims from traversing India and can
also stop the pfilux from Beluchistan
The Austrian government has decided
to prevent. 50 far as possible. the pil-
grimage from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The British Medical Journal mentions
a report that six plague cases have
reached Marseilles. but adds that IL be-
lieVes the disease viii not spread. as
the town Is In good sanitary condition