MANY DEATHS
INFLUENZA IN PAPUA.’’
(United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) Cairns, December 12. Passengers on the Montoro stated that the French missionary' and nursing sisters attached to the Yule Island Mission reported that between 300 and 400 natives had died as the result of a severe influenza epidemic on the. mainland of Papua near Yule Island.
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Southland Times, Issue 21576, 14 December 1931, Page 7
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