An officer of the Nationalist army on his way to join his comma Hunan wrote back to friends in this city from the city of Hanchow, his letter being received here yesterday. He describes the pitiful condition of the Hunan country folk on whom the scourge of cholera has laid its death-dealing hand. All along the route taken by this officer on his way to the front line he passed the bodies of dead peasants and soldiers who had f Ten victims to the terrible epidemic which has appeared in so many places in Southern China, Quite a few cases of cholera have been reported in Canton, but the Board of Health at once put.a stop to the wale by street vendors of iced beverages which ate believed to have done much to spread this, malady. So far as Canton is concern. 4, the epidemic seems to be now under control, and each day fewer and fewer cases of this disease are reported. Two weeks ago reports reached here from Swatow which indicated that the epidemic was assuming serious proportions that city, but it is understood that, Swatow medical authorities now have the situation well in hand. The writer but this morning received a letter from a: missionary in the province of Kuangsi which shows that the epidemic has also appeared in certain parts of that province. But in none of the southern ptovinees is the situation so alarming as in Hunan, where the suffering among the poor has been greatly increased by the failure of the rice crop due to the high flood which has tended to greatly increase the price of rice, so that the poor are obliged to subsist chiefly on congee.
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