16 DECEMBER 1916, Page 2

Further, according to the Daily Mail correspondent at Amster- dam,

there are hints of new and more deadly inventions for intensi- fying the German naval activity. Finally, a German Chemist is said to have perfected a new form of attack, something which will be much more effective than poison-gas or liquid-fire. Bombs laden with the deadliest infective germs are to be scattered broadcast over these islands, and plague is to complete the work of famine.