RT Journal
T1 LOndon
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD April 13
VO 92
IS 15
SP 1282
OP 1283
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02700410052020
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700410052020
AB Plague Bacilli in Bombs? 
    In view of Sir Berkeley Moynihan's assertion (The Journal, April 6) that the Germans dropped plague bacilli in bombs on the British Army in France, a statement has been made to the Daily Telegraph by Colonel Stevenson Lyle Cummins, who succeeded Sir William Leishman as adviser in pathology to the British armies in France in April, 1918. He says: "So far as I am concerned, you may state quite definitely that as adviser in pathology at headquarters in France, no such thing ever came to my knowledge. Nor do I think it at all likely to have happened, owing to the risk it would have involved to the Germans themselves through infected rats leaving our trenches and going to theirs. Although I have a very great respect and regard for Sir Berkeley Moynihan I think he was entirely wrong. Nothing of the kind was reported by