TROOPS DRINK ANTI-FREEZE
Otet 11JO D,m.) _ SAN FRANCISCO, February 21. The death of five American* who jnk automobile anti-freeze solution ■r boarding evacuation ships at aiaam in Korea in December was n»rted in San Francisco to-day. nt report was made bv an investirtat Army officer aboard the freighwnfnaron. on which five men died **»o soldiers and three of the crew, toother eight soldiers were blinded • tecame critically ill. Tbs chief officer of the Tainaron si the oold. exhausted troops aboard ■top the liquid and mistook it for tofical alcohol. “The men continued Irak even after two men had died. * we made a search and found a barrel of the stuff. We threw it •*t the side.” Tbtrt was no doctor or first aid man ■tord the ship. The sick men were graeh a critical condition that the 2JMroti broke the radio silence to ■to Idvice from a hospital ship.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26353, 22 February 1951, Page 7
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