POISON IN SOUP
FORTY-ONE BOYS DEAD AN INDIAN TRAGEDY (United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright) DELHI, 9th December, A story has reached Calcutta from Coimbatore, South India, that 41 boys of the London Mission boardinghouse at Erode have died, and many more are ill from eating some poisonous substance with the evening meal. It is believed that a snake fell into the soup and was cooked with it. _ The patients suffered excruciating pain. The cook of the hostel is among the dead. The teaching staff did not partake of the particular soup, and are not affected.
DEATHS DUE TO CHOLERA (Received 10th December, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, 9th December. In reference to the report of the deaths of students at the London Mission School, Madras, due to a snake found in v a utensil in which soup was prepared, the mission headquarters informant says that 31 are dead, and that cholera is responsible. The missionaries are safe, and include Misses H. M. May and J. W. Inglis - , New Zealanders.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 10 December 1930, Page 7
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