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Show UP LEPERS' CHILDREN KEPT FROM DANGER MANILA, April 2r Returning Monday Mon-day from on inspection Journey through the southern islands which included the Culleon leper colony, Uoveviior tjVneral Wood announced ; 260 children born of loper paronta would be brought to Manila within fl ; few days, The children are. from two to three years old but are free from leprosy It was originally the Intention Inten-tion of the constabulary to establish a -iparate ronolv on Culleon Island for children, but experts of the Rockefeller Rocke-feller foundation who visited the island is-land with Governor Wood declared it wa- more feasible to bring them to Manila. They will be placed In a public pub-lic orphanage until danger of their developing the disease has passed. oo |