SENSATIONAL WAR STORY
PLAGUE BACILLI RELEASED
BY ENEMY
HOW MENACE WAS COUNTERED
(United Press Association.— -By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
(Australian Press Assn.—United Service.)
(Rec. February 26, 9.5 p.m.)
London, February 25.
Sir Berkeley Moynihan, speaking at the Authors’ Club, disclosed a war secret when he revealed that the Allies heard in 1916 that the Germans were going to use plague as a lethal weapon. “We actually recovered plague bacilli from bombs dropped over the Fifth Army,” said Sir Berkeley Moynihan, who recalled that the plague was spread by fleas through rats. “Consequently,” he added, “we encouraged cats, protected owls, and encouraged gamekeepers to keep down rats to prev nt the plague spreading.”
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 131, 27 February 1929, Page 10
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111SENSATIONAL WAR STORY Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 131, 27 February 1929, Page 10
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