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CATTLE PLAGUE. 
be expected, seeing that the pressing necessities of war 
prevented the full adoption of those sanitary measures 
on which Central Europe mainly relies for arresting the 
cattle plague. Passing onwards with the German army, the 
plague soon came into the valley of the Marne and the 
Seine, and according to some reports has absolutely made its 
appearance in Paris itself. How it passed the Prussian lines 
which beleaguer the unfortunate city may not perhaps be 
known, although we can easily conceive of many ways by 
which the infection might easily be transmitted inside the 
fortifications. The provinces of Alsace and Lorraine — 
especially in the district around Metz — are sustaining severe 
losses ; indeed it has been recently stated that the cattle w 7 ere 
there dying too fast to admit of their proper burial. Around 
Metz also the plague has broken out among the sheep. 
To save as much food as possible the Germans are slaughter- 
ing the apparently uninfected animals, and salting down their 
carcases. In the Palatinate the plague is reported to exist 
in sixty communes, and already about 1 200 beasts have been 
killed to arrest its progress in the neighbourhood of Kaisers- 
lantern and Landau. Fairs and markets are suppressed in 
Luxembourg, and also the herding together of cattle in 
large numbers belonging to different owners. In Rhenish 
Prussia the disease has broken out in the neighbourhood of 
Treves and Cologne, and also in some districts near Coblentz. 
In Prussia proper it has reappeared in many places in which 
it was thought it had been exterminated. Six places near to 
Potsdam, according to the latest intelligence, are still the seat 
of the malady. 
No improvement has taken place either in Pomerania or 
Mecklenburg. In the latter-named duchy the prevention of 
the pasturage of cattle in open fields, among other means of 
suppression, has been adopted. In Saxony no more cases are 
reported from Dresden ; but Frieberg, Langenuime and 
Berthelsdorf are still centres of the infection. 
In Poland also no improvement has taken place, while the 
spread of the disease in Galicia may be designated as most 
serious. Eight divisions of the country, some of which are 
far removed from each other, are now suffering from the cattle 
plague. In Transylvania the disease is on the increase. 
We have no information from Hungary ; but in Turkey 
and along the Asiatic [shore of the Black Sea the disease is 
far from being exterminated. 
