DISEASE IN CHINA
BOTH SIDES ALARMED TWENTY THOUSAND JAPANESE SICK. AGGRESSION IN SHANGHAI. (Recd This Day, 12.55 p.m.) ’ LONDON, August 16. “The Times” Shanghai correspondent says both sides are alarmed at the spread of cholera, dystentry, typhoid and malaria. The worst outbreak of cholera is in Kiukiang, where the Japanese allege that wells were polluted by corpses left by the retreating Chinese. Twenty thousand Japanese troops have been sent to hospital throughout China. The municipality has protested to the Japanese regarding incidents on August 13. Lorries carrying armed Japanese today again made an effort to enter the International Settlement, but were turned back by the Seaforth Highlanders and American Marines, armed wjjh machine-guns.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1938, Page 6
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