Flu Epidemic Feared in Camps on Reich Border Bentschen, Dec. 18.
An epidemic of influenza threatened to break out in the Polish refugee camp for Jews in "No Man's Land" on the frontier as the cold wave set in today.
Over 000 Jews are at present ill with influenza end tonsilitis> Hund-redo of others among the 5,000 living in the camp have colds.
Since the Jews first arrived at the camp, ten persons have died, the Camp authorities said.
The hospital at the camp is crowded and many who have been stricken with colds have been taken into private homes in the Polish village of Bentschen.
The refugees are those Jews who were expelled from Germany six weeks ago following a misunderstanding on passports between Germany and Poland.—United Press.
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