GRIM GERMAN TALK

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 539, 17 December 1928, Page 9

GRIM GERMAN TALK

PAMPHLET ABOUT GAS DEADLIEST WAR POISON (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) Reed. 9 a.m. LONDON, Sunday. “Because we cannot abolish war,” says a pamphlet published in Hamburg, “it is the duty of the nation’s leaders, and every officer, soldier and educated person to become familiar with modern war methods, which, in these days, means chemical warfare.” The pamphlet was distributed gratis in order to push the sale of small sample boxes of the deadliest war poison gases “for instructional purposes,” from the works of Tugo Stoltzenburg, where the great poison gas disaster occurred. “TO DESTROY ILLUSIONS” The pamphlet argues that the peace movement is futile and that the world is arming, therefore there will be wars and therefore gas warfare, and perhaps also bacteriological warfare. “It is necessary,” it states, “to destroy the illusions created by the multiplicity of peace pacts.” According to the newspaper “Rotefahne Wahner,” a dynamite factory is being constructed in a huge underground chamber of reinforced concrete near Cologne in order to store the existing stock of 12 tons of phosgene gas. The pamphlet points out that the