The Archive · 1938

Japanese Inoculating Kiukiang Populace

Shanghai, Aug. 16.

Japanese military and naval sur geons were ce-operating in a wide seal campaign for the inoculation against cholera of the 10,000 Chinese still in Kiukiang, a Japanese naval spokesman announced yesterday after-

Primary School Children Evacuate Hankow Hongkong, Aug 16.

Four thousand Chinese primary school pupils were evacuated from Hankow to Kweilin, capital Kwangsi, on August 15 as Chinese troops took over for billets various educational institutions in. China's "war capital", reliable reports reach-ug here today said, Other students were evacuated to Changsha and to Chungking, the reports "added. cholera epidemic, which broke ult in tho- Yangtze city soon after the Japanese occupation on July 26, had been traced to well-water, the spokes: man said. Investigation had shown that' many Chinese dead had been dumped in the wells during the Chinese retreat from the town, Chic ete refugees, unaware that the water was polluted, drank it, ho alleged.

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