Hendaye, Aug. 20.
It was estimated to-day that the civil war was causing 1,000 deaths. each day, presenting a burial prob-Tom which must be solved In order avert the threat of an epidemic.
The United Pros correspondents at Lisbon and Gibraltar reporte!! today that bodies in neighbouring Spanish cities were being burled in common graves and covered with, quick-lime, Mass cremations are false being carried out, it was learned. Reports indicate that at least one-third of the dead remain unknown, It is understood that the French Government has ordered the estabishment of a special frontier sanitary service In order to prevent the poss~ Press. a ble spread of wu epidemic—United
Fear of Typhus otis, Aug, 20.
Great onxiély exists in' San Sebastian, according toa report here, over the" danger of a typhus epidemic) breaking out due to the scarcity of water, The sources of the city's water supply are In the hands of the insurgents and for several days only vain and spring water has been avail able for drinking—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min,
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