POISONING MYSTERY
GERMAN PRISONER-OF-WAR
CAMP
POLICE SEARCH FOR POLE (Rec. 2 p.m.) NUREMBERG, April 22.
It is officially stated that more German prisoners-of-war have been stricken with arsenical poisoning.in the mysterious attempt to kill 15,000 former members of the S.S. in the camp near Nuremberg. The new cases brought the victims to 2283, of which more than 200 were taken to hospital. No deaths are reported. The military police discovered four full bottles of arsenic and two empty bottles below the floor of a local bakery which supplied the poisoned bread. Arsenic was painted on the bottoms of the loaves with a brush before delivery to the camp. The military police are searching for a. Polish displaced person who was “associated with similar cases before” and who has now fled from the area.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 April 1946, Page 7
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