Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-10 | Page 6 | Cholera Appears

CHOLERA APPEARS. Armenians who escaped the sword of the Moslem fanatics aud who managed to exist when 1 amine spread over t he laud are now succumbing to the ravages of cholera. If there are any more vials of wrath to be uncorked few Armenians will be left to battle for life with the now horrors. Both famine and pestilence pesti-lence follow in the wake of war and it will nut be in the least surprising if more Europeans and Asiatics die of disease in the next year or two than are killed in battle. The appalling conditions con-ditions prevailing in Germany as the result of the Thirty Years' war may be repeated on a much larger scale and the cup of misery of millions of the human hu-man race filled to overflowing. Asiatic cholera, with which the unfortunate un-fortunate Armenians are now afflicted, has spread over Europe several times and the various countries have been scourged by other epidemics. In recent re-cent years science has done much to combat the ravages of these deadly diseases aud they have been stamped out in many eases. But these battles between science and the Asiatic scourges were fought under the most favorable fa-vorable circumstances in the piping times of peace. A different tale will be told if cholera makes -its appearance in the prison camps or among the European Euro-pean soldiers in the field, for the land is filled with the dead and dying and the very air is polluted. Every possible attention is paid to sanitation by the English, Germans and French and the soldiers of these countries will be the last to suffer if cholera makes its appearance ap-pearance in Europe, but they cannot escape. es-cape. The American Bed Cross doctors and nurses worked wopders when the Serbians Ser-bians were being scourged by typhus and prevented a general epidemic. We doubt whether all the doctors and nurses in the world could save Europe from decimation if cholera, bubonic plague or any kindred disease is allowed to obtain ob-tain a foothold. The danger is very great, for if cholera is not stamped out in Armenia it will without doubt mako . its way into Turkey and spread all over Europe early next summer. It might I even briny; the war to an end. I