WAR TIME SECRET.
“NOTHING TO WITHDRAW.” (Australian Press Association). LONDON, March 1. Sir Berkeley Moynihan, the famous surgeon, in a letter to the Press states that he has nothing to withdraw. .Sir Berkeley directs 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 bacilli. Though it was regarded as improbable, instructions were given which lead to rats being examined. Later, in January of 1918, a medical officer of the Fifth Army reported that a mobile laboratory had examined material dropped from a German balloon and bacilli resembGerman balloon and that, bacilli resembling bacillus pestis was isolated. Increased attention was after that paid to the destruction of rats.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 80, 4 March 1929, Page 10
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130WAR TIME SECRET. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 80, 4 March 1929, Page 10
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