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yesterday fifty
In reply I have received, on the 3rd instant, the following telegram from Your Lordship.
"Prisoners not to be employed unless they consent as follows:-
"Referring to your telegram of 1st June prisoners not to be employed unless they consent as follows:-
Bubonic plague increasing. Five British soldiers attacked. Deaths yesterday fifty.
May I employ short sentence convicts, 100 strong, in cleansing and disinfecting."
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