BOMB AS “EXHIBIT A”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 537, 14 December 1928, Page 9

BOMB AS “EXHIBIT A”

SHOWN TO THE REICHSTAG “HUNDREDS BEING MADE” Times Cable. LONDON, Wednesday. A large bomb was shown to the members of the Reichstag during a debate upon the Geneva Convention for the prohibition of chemical warfare. A Communist member said 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 gas were being produed at several works. The whole industry was 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 he declared was ono of hundreds of thousands secretly being manufactured at the Scliichau works at Elbing, 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 notic® of it.