FIFTY PEOPLE GASSED.
PANIC IN FRENCH TOWN. London, June I. A Geneva message states that the whole of the population of Annemasse was thrown into a panic when a cylinder of chlorine exploded. The frantic people rushed into cellars and churches, or fell gasping on the roadways. Fifty were seriously gassed. Annemasse is a French town of about 3000 people in Haute-Savote, near the Swiss border. It is a few miles east of Geneva.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 June 1925, Page 6
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