GERMAN FIENDS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 May 1917, Page 2

GERMAN FIENDS.

INFECT REFUGEES WITH TUBERCULOSIS. Paris, April 3. That many mothers and children, reiugees from tlie district near St. Quentin, evacuated by the Germans, were deliberately infected in their arms Tinder the guise of vaccination, is !the statement of Captain Dr. Cailleaux, in charge of the (Hospital Conde at Chantilly. Two hundred and thirty refugees are being sheltered at Chantilly, among whom Eiliott Fitch Shepherd, an American millionaire, is caring for 21 in liis chateau'

'"A 1 microscopic examination of the pus from the vaccination sores on the limbs of a number of these poor refugees disclosed the fact that they -were all innoculated with tuberculosic cell-life in the form of germ culture, "by German army doctors," said Dr. Cailleaux. "The mothers told me that just before the Germans evacuated the district the doctors told them all France was a devastated territory from epidemio smallpox, and that serum for fighting the disease was lacking. The Germans offered to vaccinate the mothers and babies against the disease, but instead injected millions of tuberculosis germß in their veins. Their object wa3 plain enough—to cause "widespread tuberculosis among the French people. They had tried to do it a long time ago by innoculating repatriated prisoners of war. These emaciated and ill-nourished women and children make excellent breeding spots for tuberculosis, and already several babies are dead rnd others in a serious condition." Tho French mothers themselves corroborate the doctor's statement, explaining 'now tlie ''kind" Herman army doctors offered to vaccinate thein against "the smallpox epidemic raging in Franco, but really pumped ; ]ow death, in the form of millions of germs, intc their blood.