CAUSED BY BACTERIA
EXPLOSIONS IN OIL-TANKS IHSCLOSLBES AT ESPIONAGE TRIAL 'Reed. 8.55.) New York. March 4. Paul Borchardt, a former major in the German army, on trial with five others tor espionage, admitted that he miormed a high official in the German garding -the progress of research into a metho.l of causing oiltanks to explode bv introducing bacteria. The prosecution produced a lei ter intercepted by British agents in Bermuda which discussed Professor Jemima’s researches into bacteria x\ 7 hich when introduced into oil-tanks, formed methane gas and caused an exnlosion Borchardt previously had said when a tanker exploded near Brooklyn that it might not have been sabotage but the result of bacteria
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 55, 6 March 1942, Page 5
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