PLAGUE BOMBS
ALLEGATIONS AGAINST GERMANS (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Australian Press Association.—United Service) LONDON, Ist March. Sir Berkeley Moynihan, in a letter to the Press, says ho has nothing to withdraw when his attention was drawn to passages in the second volume of the British Oflicial 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 nestis was isolated. Increased attention thereafter was paid to rat destruction.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 4 March 1929, Page 5
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127PLAGUE BOMBS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 4 March 1929, Page 5
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