MYSTERIOUS EPIDEMIC BRINGS DEATH QUICKLY
N'ENNONITE CHILDREN DYING OF MALADY (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) BERLIN, January 3. A mysterious epidemic has broken cut amongst the 1500 children of the Mennonites, who are encamped at Hammerstein, in Pomerania. The disease, which at first was thought to be measles, turns out to be the kind of fever which leads-to death a few hours after the first appeaance of the symptoms. Forty children are already dead, and the doctors are baffled by the malady, which apparently does not attack adults. The Mennonites are the descendants of German peasants who settled in Russia 200 years ago. Becoming dissatisfied with conditions under the Bolshevik regime, they started to return to Germany, but were segregated near Moscow pending the finalisation of arrangements.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18959, 4 January 1930, Page 1
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