| Show fl Disease the Ally of Warr War r The dispatch from St. St Petersburg to f the effect that an epidemic of choler rl t and typhoid Is threatened at Harbin b the Russian military base in I Manchuria Man Man- an- an J churia chur a Is surprising only by reason of the fact that It was permitted to tob b pass the censorship The streets are w filthy with accumulations of decomposing decomposing decomposing posing organic refuse the river Sun- Sun garl gari from which the public water I supply Is taken Is polluted to a dan dan- dan j Iii degree no facilities for adequate adequate adequate ade ade- quate filtration have been provided and the shallow wells which are the dependence of those who do not draw ra w from the river are little better than pockets In swampy spots which fill with surface water made dangerous by bythe bythe bythe the filth accumulations of the winter Russian civilization has not reached the tho stage stager of development which recognIzes recognizes recognizes rec rec- the importance of or systematic public sanitation New New York Times h L |
