SMALLPOX AND FAMINE.
SERIOUS POSITION AT CANTON AND HONKONG. A LARGE DEATH RATE. (Received 15, 12.20 p.m.) Port Darwin, February 10. . A steamer from the East repoits that a virulent typo of .smallpox is raging in Hongkong, yvltli a large percentage of deaths. 1 here is a. severe famine in eight districts ol C.'hina, covering thirty thousam. square miles. There are appalling accounts of suffering. The ancient city wall round Canton arc being destroyed by the new Republican authorities. Many daring cases of piracy are reported at West River and elsewhere.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 43, 15 February 1912, Page 6
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91SMALLPOX AND FAMINE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 43, 15 February 1912, Page 6
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