RAVAGES OF MALARIA.
THREE HUNDRED GERMAN VICTIMS.
Received January 6, 9.35 a.m. RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 6. It is reported that of the six hundred German workmen employed in the construction of the railway from Marmora to Amazonas (the northernmost province in brazil), three hundred died of malaria. Seventy declined to work, and were driven into a forest, where they suffered intense hardships. One hundred men were sent back to Hamburg to work.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9684, 7 January 1910, Page 5
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73RAVAGES OF MALARIA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9684, 7 January 1910, Page 5
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