Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1915 — Typhus Beyond Control. [ARTICLE]

Typhus Beyond Control.

Sir Thomas Lipton has arrived in, London from Servia, and tells of the conditions of the people in the disease stricken country. Lipton tells of meeting the victims crawling along the highways and being unable to walk, and of 1400 of the victims lying huddled together in an old‘tobacco house. Lipton declares that the only way to rid the country of the disease is by fire, which' was made necessary to rid London of the great plague where the houses and clothing of the victims were burned.