THE BALKAN WAR.
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AN APPALLING HECATOMB. AWFUL POSITION AT ADRIANOPLE. HUNDREDS DYING FROM DISEASE. (Received Last Night, 9.30 o'clock.) LONDON, April 9. King Ferdinand's entry into Aclrianople has been delayed owing to epidemics among the Turkish prisoners, and the destruction of tho Arda Bridge, which prevents a sufficiency of supplies from being received. Cholera, dysentry and hunger ar' 1 converting the concentration camp, on an islet on the river Tundja, into an appalling hecatomb. The prisoners have scooped hollows in the earth to secure shelter. Hundreds of corpses litter tlv ground, and two hundred are dying daily.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 April 1913, Page 5
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109THE BALKAN WAR. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 April 1913, Page 5
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