THE NEXT GREAT WAR.
The next international conflict will be a germ war, declares a London scientist. The country mobilising the greatest number of Lire most pernicious microbes will be the victor. The mosquito spreading yellow fever, the house-fly infected wiTE cholera and dysentry, and the typhus-laden cootie will cause more dea hs. than shells, bullets, or bombs. An illustration of what is possible occurred in the Tinted States in 1988. when an American collector wishing to breed the European "gipsy modi” imported eggs of that specimen, from France. One moth escaped from his house. He notified the authorities, bur inside two years a plague was rampant, and from 1801 to 1900 the Sta : m spent £300,000 in fighting it. £ that is possible by accident, imagine what can be achieved with a sot purpose.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3577, 13 September 1920, Page 3
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134THE NEXT GREAT WAR. Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3577, 13 September 1920, Page 3
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