POISON GAS LIE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20076, 24 October 1939, Page 7

POISON GAS LIE

NAZI PERSISTANCE POSSIBLE REVELATION PLAN BEFORE CHARGE BELGIAN REMINDER (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (British Official Wireless.) Reed, 2 p.m. RUGBY, Oct. 22 Reports from abroad suggest that the Nazis are putting up a very big propagandist effort behind the story for which there is not a shred of justification—that a gas mine was found, in Poland which had been supplied from Britain.

The persistence of this allegation—the German evidence for which was traversed 1 : n detail in the statement issued by the British War Office in the fdcc of authoritative denials from London is arousing speculation as to the purpose of this Nazi campaign

The War Office statement referred to the possibility that it was a prelude to the use of gas by the Germans themselves, and writing in the Observer to-day, Mr. J. L. Garvin says: "The whole world recognises in a moment the inwardness of the lie that Britain' supplied Poland with any poison gas. It is a familiar Freudian revelation, as we call it now, though Dostoieffski’s mvels were full of it. There are people who show what they are thinking about and intend what they impute.”

It is interesting to note that the Belgian newspaper Gazette. in connection with the distribution in Belgium by Nazis of the same accusation, says: "All who remember the first use of gas by the Germans in 1915 will know what to think of this propaganda. ’