A PLAGUE STRICKEN TOWN.
TERRIBLE MORTALITY. Received April 22, 12.53 a.m. LONDON, April 21. The "Daily Chronicle's" Washington correspondent reports that unofficial advices from Laguaira, in Venezuela, state that the town is stricken with the plague. The hospitals are full, and scores are dying everywhere, in the town. Whether the plague is bubonic or not is not known, owing to the strictness of the censorship.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9070, 22 April 1908, Page 5
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65A PLAGUE STRICKEN TOWN. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9070, 22 April 1908, Page 5
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