During the weeks of fighting many of those who were killed in battle have laid for days in the open folds and the stench caused by these decomposing bodies, could with the unsanitary hospital conditions gives! cause for alarm. Flies have. increased in alarming numbers and it is feared by many that these plague-spreaders may cause an epidemic break out at any time. A jty-killing campaign hax therefore been instituted and the daily paper this morning gave notice that two cents] 'a 100 would be paid to thave who would engage in the work of flyjexterminaticn. Children to-day could be seen n the street swatting the flies and potting them in match boxes ready to deliver to the "fly Sufferings of Besieged Citizens:
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