POISON GAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 September 1939, Page 6

POISON GAS

DROPPED BY GERMAN PLANES ON CIVILIANS FURTHER POLISH CHARGES. WOMEN & CHILDREN ATTACKED IN FLIGHT. (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, September 3. The United Press of America Warsaw correspondent states that the Foreign Office has charged German planes with dropping hyperite gas on civilian populations and bombing and machinegunning women and children fleeing from attacked cities. GERMANS IN HONG KONG ROUNDED UP AND INTERNED. CITY ON COMPLETE WAR BASIS. (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, September 3. The Hong Kong correspondent of the Associated Press of America states that German residents have been rounded up and interned in a requisitioned Catholic church school, which is enclosed with barbed wire. The city is on a complete war basis. Volunteer air raid wardens have been assembled, ships posted at the harbour entrance, and a strict censorship imposed. PORTUGAL NEUTRAL (Received This Day. 1.25 p.m.) LISBON, September 3. It is officially announced that Portugal will remain neutral. REPORT DENIED NO SOVIET MILITARY MISSION IN BERLIN. ONLY NEW ATTACHE & STAFF. (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, September 3. Informed Soviet circles in London deny that a Russian military mission has arrived in Berlin. The so-called head mission consists merely of a new military attache accompanied by his staff.