WAR STORY
NOTHING TO WITHDRAW. i Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) London, March 1. Sir Berkeley Moynihan, in a letter to the press, says that he has nothing to withdraw. He draws attention 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 bacille. Though it was regarded as improbable, instructions were given which fed to rats being examined in the laboratory. Later, in January, 1918, the medical officer of the Fifth Anny reported that a mobile laboratory had examined material dropped from a German balloon and bacilli resembling bacillus pestis were isolated. Increased attention was after that paid to rat destruction. It was reported on Monday that Sir Berkeley Moynihan, speaking at the London Authors’ duh, 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.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 65, 4 March 1929, Page 8
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