BOMB IN REICHSTAG.

Grey River Argus, 14 December 1928, Page 5

BOMB IN REICHSTAG.

COMMUNISTS PROTEST Against Chemical Warfare. (Reeeifed December 13, at 10.25 p.m.) (Times Cable). LONDON, December 12. A large bomb was introduced into the Reichstag during the debate upon the Geneva Convention for prohibition of chemical Warfare. A. Communist declared that the Convention was an empty inleinatioua' gesture. A German chemical trust was at present producing new ant* more potent poisonous gases, ano large quantities of phosgene were b»* ing produced at several works. The whole industry was capable of pro ducing gas twenty four hours af;e~ war was d‘s*lared, and civilian air craft was quickly transferable into gas emitting machines. He leclare/J that the Co-inmunists had discoverei* another gas depot at Hamburg, which when analysed proved to be what known during the war as ‘ ‘ blue cross.” A total of 163,000 kilogramnes of this gas was stored in the centre o * Hamburg. Communists had reported that after the discovery, the gas had been removed.

The speaker and his colleagues the)’ carried in a large bomb, Which the speaker declared was one of hundreds of thousands secretly being manufactured at the Schichau Works, at Albing, which the Government proposed to purchase. The Minister for Defence did not repay, but sa?d he treated the story with amused contempt ,and refused to be lured into taking notice of it.