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middle of March. A similar malady attacking a flock some 
four miles distant has been reported. The veterinary surgeon 
who was called in at once pronounced the disease as being 
“ highly infectious.” 
Pathological Contributions. 
CATTLE PLAGUE. 
This disease still exists in the Provinces of Bessarabia, 
Volhynia, and Kherson, but no reports have been received 
from the other provinces contiguous to Austria and Ger¬ 
many, or from those bordering on the Black Sea. 
In Bohemia, cattle plague is declared to be extinct. In 
Bukowina a decree has been passed- allowing Roumanian 
cattle and raw animal products to be imported subject to the 
restriction of twelve days 5 observation. 
Reports have been received that the disease has again 
broken out in Lower Egypt, which was declared free only 
last month. 
A communication from Konigsberg announces that cattle 
plague has appeared at Telschen, in the adjoining Russian 
province of Courland, on the Baltic. Instructions have been 
given to the Consul to telegraph immediately to the British 
Government should the disease advance very near to or cross 
the Prussian Border. 
According to the Landwirth, “ rinderpest has again broken 
out in alarming proximity to the Silesian frontier, at a place 
named Cholerzyn, in the Cracow district, which is only be¬ 
tween forty-five and fifty miles from Klein-Chelm, the nearest 
Silesian point. Already several animals have fallen victims 
to the disease, which it is feared, will spread to a consider¬ 
able extent. The outbreak is distinctly traceable to the 
smuggling in of cattle over the Russian-Polish frontier. 
Veterinary inspectors have been sent off to Cholerzyn in hot 
haste, and every possible precaution is being taken to con¬ 
fine the pest within the immediate limits.” 
The Mark Lane Express, alluding to this report, says : 
<f No doubt. But what if it should come into North Germany ? 
Would our Privy Council have the courage to revoke the usual 
licence recently given to that particular branch of the Ger¬ 
man cattle trade which is carried on from the port of Ton- 
ning? Our cattle breeders will not submit quietly to have 
German cattle imported here from Schleswig-Holstein or 
any other part of the Empire, if' rinderpest is known to exist 
within its borders.” 
