In conformance with the policy of the Public Health Department to n id the Settlement and outside-ronds areas of exposed -or partly: exposed bodies, some 250 corpses were burned on February 27 off Lincoln Avenue, near Warren Road, Scenes of the burning are shown above, About fifty bodies of unburied Chinese soldiers were destroyed, as well as corpses abandoned in alleyways, some In fragile coffins and some exposed, The authorities are doing their utmost to eliminate the menace to health "The ashes are later Provided by these bodies. Kerosene sprayed on the pyre hastens. the destruction, gathered and buried in a coffin,
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