GERMAN GAS & GERMS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 232, 13 September 1934, Page 7

GERMAN GAS & GERMS

A General's Disclosure!

A tank armed with big guns ami capable of a speed of 59 mile* an hour, A gas 40 times as deadly as any known destructive agent. ’Planes able to carry enough gas to kill 1,500,000 persons. Germany has all these, declares an anonymous German general, whose journals are published by Jarrold'a uuder the title of “Berlin Diaries.” They are edited by Dr. Klotz. Their author, who was clearly in the confidence of the highest personages until Hitler became Chancellor, described th* late von Hindenburg as a man who let, everybody down, adducing instances ot his faithlessness. Ho says that Dr. Goebbels is a Mcphistophcle* who i« able to twist anything to mean its opposite, and that General Goering i* a disgusting swaggerer. Counties* entries show the author's supremo contempt for Hitler. He declared that th* accession of Hitter to power mean* “Wo have goue off our heads.” There are astonishing revelation* ot Germany's preparation* tor gas and bacteria bombardment from the air, confirming Mr. Wickham Bleed’s published charges ot Juno 27. There are records of visits to chemical factories, whera ho witnessed the production of a gas called ‘‘.Red Cross,” 40 tjmie more deadly than “yellow Cross,” “which, God knows, is powerful enough.” After Inspecting a gas factory at Bitterfield, be was of the opinion that 10 passenger 'planes could carry sufficient gas to kill 1,500,000 person*. At Duisberg the managing director ot ihe German Chemical Trust, introduced him to a colleague doing research work on bacterial warfare, who was convinced that Germany could risk war to morrow. The general gives the opinion that,compared with the "»st war, the World Wat will seem a honeymoon. He is also satisfied that Germany already possesses sufficient machisogun*. He tested a tank capubl* of 5B miles an hour.