POISON GAS.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17585, 14 December 1928, Page 7

POISON GAS.

MANUFACTURE IN GERMANY. PROTEST IN REICHSTAG. (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Times Cables.) LONDON, Dec. 12. A large bomb was shown to the members of the Reichstag during a debate upon tile Geneva Convention for the prohibition of chemical warfare. A Communist member said the conventien was an» empty international gesture. The German Chemical Trust was at present producing new and more potent poisonous gases. Large quantities of phosgene gas were being produced at several works. The whole industry w : as capable of producing gas 24 hours after war was declared. Civilian aircraft were quickly transferable into gas-emitting machines The member said the Communists had discovered another gas depot at Hamburg. The gas when analysed proved to be what was known during the war as "73 Cross." There were 163,000 kilogrammes of this gas stored in the centre of Hamburg. The Communists had reported that after the discovery the gas had been removed. ..The member and his colleagues then carried in a large bomb, which lie declared was one of hund"cds of thousands secretly being manufactured at the Scliiehau works at Lilting, which the Government proposed to purchase. The Minister of Defence, General Groener, said he treated the story with amused contempt, and refused to be lured into taking notice of it.