POISONOUS GAS
TRAGEDY IN BEIPJUM
NUMBER OF DEATHS
INCREASING
United Press Association—By Electric Tel«graph—Copyright. (Beeeived 6th December, 2.45 p.m.) LIEGE, sth December. Liege is fog-bound. Villagers are horror-stricken at the increasing number of deaths due to the invasion of what is apparently, a poisonous gas. They recall that tha Germans stored vast quantities of ammunition in the Liego district during the war, and the peasants declare that the vapours arc arising from thi3 source. The health authoidtics are non-committal pending the result of post-mortem examinations. Many of the sufferers, gasping in the last extremity, were taken to hospital, whera scenes recalling the gas attacks of wartime are recalled. The afflicted district is one of the healthiest in Belgium, as most of the victims are mea and women in the prime of life. Tha mortality in cattle and sheep is also heavy.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 137, 6 December 1930, Page 10
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141POISONOUS GAS Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 137, 6 December 1930, Page 10
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