'WARE GAS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 67, 24 April 1945, Page 4

'WARE GAS

WE have a sickening: fear that in these desperate days of final resistence; when the structure of Nazidom and all it stands for is being hurled to its doom, that like the cornered desperado the Nazi fanatics will employ in their final attempts to eliminate the invaders, that most potent and vilest of all weapons—gas. It is well known that the Nazi chemists had built up huge stocks of poison gases, some of them being described as more destructive than anything hitherto known in modern warfare; but that only the threat of our great leader, Winston Churchill, to release even ghastlier counter-measures, held its use m check. Cornered and desperate it would quite be within the bounds of Nazi reasoning to release simultaneously ±rom prepared vantage points the whole of this deadly supply upon the converging armies of Russia, England America, France and our smaller allies. Such is a passm* thought, which though God forbid may never eventuate is well to bear in mind, though the possibilities are that effective counter measures have already been prepared against such eventuality.