London, Aug. 8.
Mr. Merritt Singer, sons of the late Mr. I founder of the moder machine industry, is seriously in' England following Merritt Singer has. for: many years red on his country estate at ton, Pai Devonshire, which, during the Great War, was converted into private hospital. Tt was there that first cases of the disastrous influenza "epidemic which spread through American transports were taken, and. Mr. Singer received the warm thanks of the United States Government for his courage in dealing wi was then known as the lack Death plague."—Reuter,
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