SERIES OF CALAMITIES.
CHOLERA IN INDIA. (Times Cables.) Received April 23, 1.5 p.m. LONDON, April 22. The Times Delhi correspondent says a hundred deaths daily from cholera are ■ reported from Hardwar, in the United Provinces, where fires are burning day and night to cremate the bodies of the victims of the epidemic, which broke put at the end of the famous religious fair of Kumbhamela, which was marred by a succession of accidents. The huts of the entire colony of traders on Rohri Island, in the Ganges, and the personal effects of thousands of pilgrims were destroyed by fire on the last day of the fair. Six were killed and many injured the same day when a train crashed into an enclosure densely packed with pilgrims. . Doctors and nurses are hurrying to Hardwar.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 123, 23 April 1938, Page 10
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133SERIES OF CALAMITIES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 123, 23 April 1938, Page 10
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