ESCAPE OF GAS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18787, 14 February 1923, Page 7

ESCAPE OF GAS

TRAGEDY NARROWLY AVERTED. P:e«« Association —By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, February' 15. (Received Feb. 15, at 8.5 p.m.) At Pitman (New Jersey) a family of six persons was asphyxiated and scores of persons were made dangerously ill by illuminating gas which seeped into sewers from a broken main, and thence found its way into homes throughout the city. F'irernen discovered tho nreaence fjf the gas and raced through the town waking the householders, who helped in rescue work. Many were saved on the verge of death, whilst numbers were overcome by the fames. —A. and N.Z. Cable.

THE GREEK ARMY. READY FOR WAR. AWAITING DEVELOPMENTS. LONDON, February 12. (Received I'ch. 13, at 10.30 p.m.) Tho Daily Express's Salonika corespondent says that a well organised, splendidly equipped Greek army is concentrated between Salonika and the Maritza. It waits the signal from the Allies to seek revenge against the Turks. War is the sole topic of conversation among the civil and military population in Thrace and Macedonia. The Greek commander said that the reorganised army is awaiting developments. It would not fight unless provoked or unless it was obliged to do so in the interests of world peace, and then only with the Great .Powers’ approval, but the people generally fully expect the Allies to decide on war owing to the Turks’ refusal to sign the Lausanne treaty.—A. and N.Z. Cable.