LEPERS STAGE RIOT
DEPUTATION TO PRESIDENT EXCITEMENT AT MANILA MANILLA, Oct. 6. f Three hundred lepers, carrying pla- J cards reading “Give us liberty or give | us death,” rioted at,San Lazaro Hospital. They escaped and proceeded in | a disorderly manner to President Quezon’s Palace to present a petition. The guards at the Palace became panicky and most of them ran away when the lepers entered the building, j The spokesman for the lepers de- [ clared the petition for freedom was i based on the grounds of recent medical investigation that the touch of a leprous person was insufficient to transmit the disease, which was not ■ contagious. President Quezon's secretary received the petition and the patients , returned quietly to the hospital. ;
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 239, 9 October 1936, Page 3
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120LEPERS STAGE RIOT Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 239, 9 October 1936, Page 3
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