THE ENTERIC LADEN BLANKETS.
OFFICIAL NEGUGKSOB. Per Preta Association. Losdos, May 22. The infected blankets vers sold in 150 town'. Received 21, 5.14 p m. Losdon, May 23. The Daily Mail says thi a tie of the infected blanke's was due to some War Office cfficial at Cape Town committing a two-fold breach of the regulations, one prescribing the destruction of badding likely to be infectious.' Th i War Office has cabled icquiriea BO as t) deal summarily with the matter. The Daily Telegraph's Oape'own correspanient asserts that the chief shipment was made by a Jewish commercial agent who purchased the blankets in thj ordinary course from the Imperial authoritits. Large qaan'itias wrre burn*, but others were disinfected and said after the bulk hid been scou ed. The Daily Chronicle s'rongly accuses the War Office of negligence in connection with the sales.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 122, 25 May 1903, Page 3
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142THE ENTERIC LADEN BLANKETS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 122, 25 May 1903, Page 3
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