300 Lepers Invade Presidential Palace
PANICKY GUARDS RUN AWAY United Press Association—By Electric Telegrapn.— Copyrtglit. Received Wednesday, 11.30 p.m. MANILA, Oct. 7. Three hundred lepers carrying placards reading “Give us liberty or give ns death,” rioted at the San Lazaro hospital, escaped and proceeded in a disorderly manner to President Quezon’s palace to present a petition. The guards at the palace became panicky and most of them ran away wlr - the lepers entered the building. The spokesman for the lepers declared that the petition for freedom was based on the grounds oi recent medical investigation that the touch of a leprous person was insufficient to transmit the disease which was not contagious. President Quezon’s secretary received the petition and the patients returned quietly to the hospital.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 238, 8 October 1936, Page 6
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