SNAKE IN SOUP
Strange School Tragedy
FORTY-ONE DIE IN AGONY
(Rec. December 9, 10 p.m.)
Delhi, December 9,
A story has reached Calcutta from Coimbatore, South India, that 41 boys of the London Mission boarding-house at Erode have died and many more are ill from eating some poisonous substance with their evening meal. It is believed that a snake fell into the soup and was cooked with it. The patients suffered excruiating pain. The cook of the hostel is among the dead. The teaching staff did not partake of the soup and am not affected.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 65, 10 December 1930, Page 11
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95SNAKE IN SOUP Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 65, 10 December 1930, Page 11
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