DEATHS AFTER FOG.
MEUSE VALLEY RESIDENTS. COMPANY DIRECTORS FINED. BRUSSELS, August 21. As a sequel to the deaths after a fog in the Mouse Valley last December, when 75 people died, heavy fines were imposed on the managing director and another director of chemical works in the Liege district, from which the poisonous gases were stated to have emanated. •Post-mortern examinations of the bodies of the victims of the fog in the Meuse Valley made it clear that the cause of their 'deaths was some toxic agent contained in the fog. It was stated that at certain factories by-products had been treated which were not. dangerous so long as they remained anhydrous, but became injurious when plunged in a bath for any considerable time.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20959, 24 August 1931, Page 9
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