Appended is a table giving the total number of proven cases of cholera, and deaths caused by cholera since the outbreak of the disease on August $0 this year. These cholera cases have been confirmed, by bactetiological examination in hospitals situated in the International Settlement and include all cases and deaths up to and including October 19:—
Residents of International
Residents of French Gon-Settlement Cases Deaths 1 ably refugees) 200 imo The total number of clinically suspected cases in Settlement hospitals, also up to October 19, was 2,990; this total includes the 1,710 confirmed cases mentioned in the above table.
Nanking, Oct, 20.
Twenty-three Chinese universities and colleges have been destroyed either by Japanese aerial and artillery bombardment or burned by Japanese troops since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese hostilities, It is authoritatively learned from the Ministry of Education to-day.
Universities and colleges in Pei: ping, which.have been left undamaged, have been forcibly occupied by the Japanese forces.
Investigations are now being conducted by the Ministry into the number of middle and primary schools so far destroyed by the Japanese. The number of Chinese students arrested and killed by Japanese troops will also be ascertained.
The Ministry will shortly publish a pamphlet containing articles and photographs to show the destruction of Chinese educational institutions by the Japanese.—Central News.
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