FLY PESTS ON THE BATTLE FRONT
: - ♦ . • A SERIOUS MENACE. Bj Megraph—Press Association—Copyright! (Roc. August 23, 2.5> p.m.)' - ! • London, August 22. Keuter's correspondent at BritisK headquarters, replying to allegations regarding insufficient measures for deal* ing with the fly-pest danger, says thai stories are exaggerated, but the matter! is serious, arid is so recognised by medical men, who are explaining proven* tive methods. Tho War Office in April last appoint* ed an entomological "commission of threei experts, who visited the trenches, field ambulance clearing-stations, and billets; including those at Ypres, and gava practical demonstrations. Tho Dluo bottle is more, common in the trenchei than the housefly, because there arc bo many corpses lying ,on tho surface on , buried in shallow graves. The trouble would be-minimised if the Germans had been as careful as tho British in disposing of their dead.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2548, 24 August 1915, Page 6
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138FLY PESTS ON THE BATTLE FRONT Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2548, 24 August 1915, Page 6
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