HAMBURG EXPLOSION
MANUFACTURE OF POISON GAS. INQUIRIES TO BE MADE. Rugby, May 23. The Foreign Secretary was asked in Parliament to-day whether his attention had been called to the accident at Hamburg where a tank containing fluid for the manufacture of poison gas had exploded and whether in view of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles it was proposed to make representations to the German Government on the subject. Sir Austen Chamberlain replied that he had received no information except what had appeared in the Press and he was not in a position to say whether there were any grounds for making representations to the German Government. However, he was taking steps to get further information.— British Official Wireless. PHOSGENE IN AMERICA. PRECAUTIONS AGAINST ESCAPE. New York, May 23. A supply of deadly phosgene gas which caused twelve deaths in Hamburg is stored in isolated buildings at Ford’s, New Jersey. It is allegedly used in the manufacture of fine medicinal chemicals. The firm owning the plant stated that the greatest precautions were taken to prevent escape and also to protect employees’ health.—Australian Press Association.
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Southland Times, Issue 20495, 25 May 1928, Page 7
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