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Show I, OlSEVENl-OF" ! NATIVESvPEAB Influenza Has Carried Off j Thousands in the Island of Tahita PAPEETE, Tahiti. Dec. 9. (Majl)-j (Majl)-j Influenza has turned the island of Ta- 1 hitl Into a enamel place. At the crest of Papeete bum great pyres, with the stark, sheet covered bodies of many natives waiting1 to be thrown into the Slowing ashes .of those who have been consumed by .the flames. The. ssociated Press correspondent has lenrned that fully one-seventh of ' the. population of Papeete are dead: In almost every native home families are j with no medicine and little attention. ' while the fever consumes their lives. ( Thev beg in vain for food. Those Europeans and Ameircans who escaped the disease formed a-volunteer corps to carry food and medicine medi-cine to theslck and to take measures for the disposal of the dead. But the situation grew enormously and soon sot out ofihand. The deaths became ' so numcroits in the past week that to , I burv the vietims was impossible. Only, (he'pvro was left. The start or the, epidemic has been traced to the ar- rival of a steamer here on November 17 with many cases on board. |