POISON GAS BOMBS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18140, 14 December 1928, Page 9

POISON GAS BOMBS.

Manufacture In Germany. ALLEGATIONS BY COMMUNISTS. (United Press Association — By ElectrU Tel, graph - -Copyright i (Received Dec. 13, 10.25 p.m.) LONDON, December 12. A large bomb was introduced into the Reichstag during the debate upon the Geneva Convention for the prohibition of chemical warfare. A Communist declared that the convention was an empty international gesture. The German chemical trust was at present producing new and more potent poisonous gases. Large quantities of phosgene were being produced at several works, while the industry was capable of producing gas, twenty-four hours after war was declared. Civilian aircraft was quickly transferable into gas emitting machines. He declared that the Communists had discovered another gas depot in Hamburg, which analysed, proved to be what was known during the war as “blue cross,” and 163,000 kilogrammes of this gas was stored in the centre of Hamburg/ The Communists reported that after the discovery the gas had been removed. The speakers and their colleagues then carried in a large bomb, which the speaker declared was one of the hundreds of thousands secretly being manufactured at Schichau works, Elbing, which the Government - proposed to purchase. The Minister for Defence, did not reply. He said he treated the story with amused contempt, and refused to be lured into takipg notice of it.