Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1916 — CHARGE FOE DROPPED POISON [ARTICLE]

CHARGE FOE DROPPED POISON

Petrograd Says Enemy Flyers Hurled Drugged Sweets and Cholera Germs Into Roumania. Petrograd, Oct. 13. —Poisoned sweets and garlic infected with cholera bacilli were dropped .by enemy flyers who attacked the Roumanian Black sea port of Constanta, it was officially announced here. The. war office allegation. that the central powers have been guilty of a new form of “frightfulness” in warfare aroused intense indignation In official circles. The-ofli-cia) statement did not disclose whether any children ate the infected and poisoned sweets.