The Archive · 1939

Local Japanese Hit By Epidemics

"Among the 96 persons suffering from typhoid fever in the Settlement and Concession in the week from May 28 to June 3 inclusive, there were 21 Japanese, according {o mes released by the Shanghai domic Prevention Office of the Ministry of Public. Welfare, e "Shanghai Mainichi" said Friday evening.

There were five cases of paratyphoid fever and four cases of dysentery among Japanese, making a'total of 30 cases of contagious diseases in the Japanese community. the paper stated.

A Rartway bridge between Chinkiang and Nanking, and large sections of the railway tracks have been torn up by Chinese units operating along the Nanking-Shanghai Railway areas says a Kwangteh Chinese message to the "Shun Pao." Nanking-Shanghai train services, as a result, have now been interrupted, the report adds. Skirmishes are said "ta have broken out between the E nding forces in the areas lying

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