TURKEY.
Cholera is still raging in Constantinople. A comprehensive system of public works has been inaugurated, including railways, improvement of harbors and rivers, and new roads. Persian letters state that the people are more emaciated than ever. 2500 besiege the English Residency for food every day. In their rush, they have actually crushed women to death, and young children were going about the streets scarcely recognisable as human beings.
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Southland Times, Issue 1522, 12 January 1872, Page 3
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69TURKEY. Southland Times, Issue 1522, 12 January 1872, Page 3
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