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Show FEAR CHOLERA ON i A GERMAN SHIP 1 'II Fifteen Persons 111 on Board III Quarantined Hamburg- J l American Ship. . H1 New York, Sept. 1. The results of ti bacteriological examination were : awaited today to determine the na- 1 ture of the disease which has placed S the Hamburg-American liner Presi- I dent Lincoln under strict quarantine. n Fifteen persons aboard the steamship i I are 111, and the health officers have ; taken extraordinary precautions be- 1 cause the symptoms resemble those R1 of Asiatic cholera. f in, Tho President Lincoln Is ope of , HI the German liners tied up in Hoboken since the beginning of the war. For ' 1 1 months past she has been used as an ' 5 i asylum for German refugees who left 8 ' their homes In the Far East on ac- hi count of the war with Japan and are f on their way back to Germany. It hi was believed that the germs of the J jj disease were brought here by refu- k gees. At present thirty-seven German 'I I subjects from the Far East are on jjl hoard, besides some 150 members of the crew. Jjjl i nn 48 i |