MYSTERIOUS DISEASE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1339, 29 May 1918, Page 5

MYSTERIOUS DISEASE.

SPREADING IN SPAIN. ISy Ca'M.—Prf A.,0-, a Uon—Auttralien ":,l S / Vablt Attention |<IW. May ■»■.'. lA.IOi MADRID. May 2S. i A mysterious epidemic is spreading throughout tin- country at an i alarming rate. Forty pei- cent, of the poulation is stricken. J lit- railways. Iramwavs, factories, newspapers, schools and theatres have been seriously disorganised owing In Ihc depiction of their stalls, and main have been closed. Ihc military manuuvres ihave been suspended. *,< ur- of the symptoms resemble influenza, but ! there are many cases of sudden lils. ; The King and several Ministers arc ill. lew deaths have occurred.