GERMICIDAL ASSASSINS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2925, 10 November 1916, Page 5

GERMICIDAL ASSASSINS

WHAT GERMAN AIRMEN DROPPED IN BUCHAREST. (Anal—N.Z. Cable As6n. and Ecu tor.) (Rec. November 9, 5.25 p.m.) London, November 8. A report from Bucharest states that Professor Cantaeuzene, 1 and tho Director of the Bacteriological Institute, examined fifty varieties of sweetmeats which had been dropped by Gorman aoroplanes. The culture from the ingredients, when injected into animals, revealed disease-produoing bacilli, including typhoid. The flasks which wero discovered in the German Legation contained cultures of glanders ind a virulent form of anthrax.

OUTRAGEOUS SLAVE RAIDS THE HEEL OF THE HUN. IN BELGIUM. ("The Times.") r London, November 8. The German military authorities are making outrageous slave raids in Belgium, compelling the forced Belgians to labour in military zones, calling them "P by ukase,_ warning them by notices threatening heavy fines and imprisonment in the event of refusal, and compelling municipalities to furnish lists of tho unemployed. .Gorman soldiers are rounding up the Belgians, penning them in camps, and sending them under military escort. They are compelled to' construct military positions, and those who refuse aro not fed till they submit. Others are sent in open trucks to Germany and North France. At each raid iOOO were captured, making a total of 15,000, The whole able-bodied male population is threatened with veritable slavery, in direct, violation of The' Haguo Convention.