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Letter: We're no elite

Brian Mayes
Wednesday 25 November 1998 00:02 GMT
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Sir: Geoffrey Archer (Historical Notes, 24 November) tells us that we stockpiled anthrax-infected cattlefood during the Second World War to infect German cattle. How ironic that what we subsequently did was to poison our own cattle so that he Germans would not buy them.

BRIAN MAYES

Sheffield

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