POISON V-WEAPON MADE IN REICH

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 289, 5 September 1945, Page 7

POISON V-WEAPON MADE IN REICH

Hundred Times Worse Than

Mustard Gas (Received September 4, 7 p.m.) LONDON, September 3. The Germans bad a war gas u hundred times deadlier than the last wurs mustard gas, says the "Daily Express. Jt is revealed' that, tbe Bern ans lad 10,0(>0 tons of bombs and shells filled with this gas and intended to use it ns a final VE weapon to deal a Miockout blow by dropping ga* cargoes Scientific workers of the. I.G. Il arben laboratories discovered tins, colourless gas. They worked in special rubber clothing which they changed 10 tunes in each shift; nevertheless, some ot the workers were killed through the gas seeping through to tlic skin. Great German arms plants pre now turning out goods to keep the German population alive, and gram currying wagons are emerging from the debris of Krupp's at Essen, -the Rubrnleclue plant at. Oberlijusen, which previously produced liquid oxygen for V weapons, is now making fertilizers. The Hauomag tank works at Hanover is turning out tractors. Ihe Miag tactory at Brunswick is making milling machinery instead of Messerschmitt pglitA message from Berlin says that commissions from Moscow arc still removing machinery " from German factories to replace the shattered Russian machinery ii( spite of efforts by local administrative officers to oppose them. There seems little chance of rebuilding German industry in the east till Moscow orders all such appropriations to cease, Shadow Cabinet Ready. The Russians have established 11 centralized departments, or ghost Ministries, in Berlin through which the whole of the Russian occupied zone in Germany is to be governed. The lieadquarters will be in Goering’s former, huge Ministry at the corner bjf ths Wilhclmstrasse and Leipsigefstrasse. Marshal Zhukov has appointed the members' of the new “shadow Government,” the Cabinet of which has so tar only met informally. The Government is strongly communistic and socialistic, but jt is noticeable fhat none of the really big political 'leaders, such as the Communist chiefs Wilhelm Bieck aud Haus Ulbricht. are included. Tfie British and. American military authorities in Austria have, simultaneously decided today to lift, the remaining restrictions on fraternization between their forces aud citizens.