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‘WAR CHARGES AGAINST ; GERMANY (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.)» London, March 1. Sir Berkeley Moynihan, in a letter to the Press, says he has nothing to withdraw when his attention was drawn to passages in the second volume of the British Official History of the War,- stating that it was rumoured on the Western front in 1916 that the Germans might use plague bacilli, though it was regarded as improbable. Instructions were given that would lead to rats being exhumed in a laboratory. Later, in January, 1918, the medical officer of the Fifth Army reported that a mobile laboratory had'examined material dropped from a German balloon, and bacilli resembling bacillus pestis was isolated. Increased, attention thereafter was paid to «£*
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 135, 4 March 1929, Page 11
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