GERM-LADEN AIR BOMBS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1500, 22 January 1916, Page 3

GERM-LADEN AIR BOMBS.

The extraordinary high proportion of deaths following injuries caused by Zeppelin bombs lias led to a strong .suspicion among .surgeons who have treated these, eases Unit Hie bombs June been impregnated with deadly disease germs, remarks the Daily A tail. The evidence m lavotir of Hie bombs having been so treated was reviewed h\ one ol the surgeons ol a hospital in the London area to which some loity seitously injured victims of the last raid were admitted lor treatment. “iu the first place," the .surgeon .staled, “the death-rate among these cases has been at least, live nines as high as one would expect m patients wounded equally severely, either in battle or accidentally in civil hie. In practically all the cases a germ causing rapidly latai gangrene, very rarely met with m ordinary hospital practice, has been discovered by tile hospital bacleiiologisls. “Patients who received the best treatment alfordcd by a modern hospital within ten minutes ol being injured r.ulIcml a much higher death-rale than soldiers at the I rout who, alter receivum wounds outw urdly ol the .same deglee, ol seventy, have had to wait Lweuty-l uuf hours of more heloie Heated. “Enquiries are being made to determine whether the Italian bacteriologists have found the same germ hi the wounds of those injured in the recent raid on Verona. H this very rare gan-groue-eausiiig germ has been lolind there also, it will he pretty strong evidence that thq bombs have been deliberately impregnated with one ol the most deadly varieties ol disease germs known.”