COMMUNISTS,

Hokitika Guardian, 14 December 1928, Page 1

COMMUNISTS,

AGAINST CHEMICAL AVAR FARE. i United Press Association —Ry Electric Telegraph-—Copyright). LONDON. December 12. A large bomb was introduced into the Reichstag during the debate upon the Geneva Convention for prohibition of chemical warfare. A communist declared that the Convention was an empty international gesture 1 . A Gorman chemical trustwas at present producing new and more potent poisonous gases, and large quantities of phosgene were Going produced at several works. Ibe whole industry was capable ol producing gas twentv-'lonr hours aiterwnr was declared, mid civilian air craft emitting machines, lie declared that the Communists had discovered another gas depot tit Hamburg, which when analysed proved to he what was known during the war as “blue cross.” A total of KiH.OOO kilogrammes of this gas was stored in the centre ol Hamburg. ( nmmunists had repotted that after the discovery, the gas haul been removed. 'the speaker and bis colleagues there carried in a large bomb, which rhi speaker declared was one ol hundreds of thousands secretly being manufactured at the Hchichau Moths, at Albing. which the Government proposed to purchase. The .Minister for Defence did not reply, but said lie treated the stor\ with amused contempt, and re!used t,o be lured into taking notice ot it.