HUH MENACE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 167, 20 April 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

HUH MENACE.

GOVERNMENTAL STUPIDITY IN SUFFERING ENEMY EXPERTS AT LIBERTY. INFANTILE PARALYSIS. MAY BE OF THEIR DOINGS. ROME. Enemy aeroplanes dropped package.; of sweets at Ravenna and Codigero. These were analysed, and found to contain the bacilli of infectious diseases. Warnings were issued agaist eating them. —CABLE NEWS. The above is merely a detail in the scheme of Hunnish Kultur atrocities, says the "Sydney Sunday Times." The man or woman who would place a limit to the hell-inspired genius of the Teuton brain in the realm of frightfulness must possess an extraordinarily confiding nature. Many people are now asking themselves "if the epidemic of infantile paralysis, which some time back made its unwelcome appearance in Sydney its suburbs, and outlying portions of the State, may not have been engineered by German scientists,and other cultured persons of Hunnish birth, including the many medical practitioners anc specialists who, with crass stupidity on the part of the authorities, are permitted to pursue the even tenor of their ways undisturbed in our midst. Asked whether he coiud endorse the suggestion that the Germans in our midst might be responsible for having cultivated and released the microbes of infantile paralysis, Dr. Elliott, of Elliott Brothers, pointed out that being a doctor of science and not a coctor of medicine he was not prepared to say whether or not such were practicable. "I have no desire," said Dr. Elliott, "to instruct the Government as to its obvious duty. Everybody, however, must be fully alive to the fact that there is a host of Germans still at large in our midst. Some of these are scientists r.nd medical practitioners. Mi ml you, I do not say that these people would be guilty of wiltully spreading cisease. Still, I certainly think we ought to be on the safe side, and remove from them the opportunity of working us an injury. People havs very little idea of the number of professional men of enemy nationality we still have at large. After our experience of German methods I am not prepared to put any atrocity beyond a German. As the war goes more and more against Germany we must look out foAresh horrors, as the result of desperation. Therefore, we ought to be on our guard."