Rome, June 25.
Considerable anxiety reigns in the Vatican city owing to the bad state of the Pope's health. The old kidney trouble from which Hi Holiness has suffered for some time made itself felt since last week and has been becoming steadily worse since Sunday last.
The municipality has decided to take novel steps to cope with the present summer's unprecedented mosquito plague which renders bathing in the Danube impossible. Powerfal lights with high tension wi screens will be placed along the beach to attract and kill the pests. Experiments with but a few lamps proved a complete success and it is, therefore, hoped that the and its environments of the nuisance.—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
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