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DEATH ROLL IN JAVA
.According to M. Ralafewski, the pianist, who returned to Sydney recently from Java, 1<,500,000 Javanese wi5 rom mfluenza in a few months VVhat impressed him was the philosophic way in which the natives took the disease. It was a case of "kismet " There was no panic. No masks were worn, and life went on as usual; even excursion trains were kept running The white population suffered very little from the disease, added M. Katalewski, but the natives died like flies.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 15 May 1919, Page 5
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84DEATH ROLL IN JAVA Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 15 May 1919, Page 5
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