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Revelations At Spy Trial (9.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, Mar. 4. Paul Borchardt, a former major of the German army who is on trial with five others for espionage, admitted he informed a high official in the German Government regarding tire progress of research into the method of causing oil tanks to explode by introducing bacteria. The prosecution produced a letter intercepted by British agents in Bermuda which discussed Professor Jemima’s researches into bacteria which, when introduced into oil tanks, formed methans gas and caused an explosion. Borchardt previously had said when a tanker exploded near Brooklyn that it might not have been sabotage but the result of bacteria gas.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22214, 6 March 1942, Page 5
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111BACTERIA GAS Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22214, 6 March 1942, Page 5
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