GERMAN LIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1939, Page 6

GERMAN LIES

DENIED BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT POISON GAS & OTHER FABLES EXPERIENCE OF 1915 RECALLED. ARK ROYAL NEITHER SUNK . NOR DAMAGED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 1.17 p.m.) RUGBY, October 15. Following on further reports broadcast by the German wireless stations that Polish troops employed yellow cross gas mines, obtained from Britain, the War Office states: “In spite of the categorical denial issued by the British Government, which has not supplied gas in any form at any time to Poland, German radio stations continue impudently to broadcast this baseless charge.” The War Office recalls that the first German gas attack in the last war was preceded by similar allegations when, on April 17, 1915, the German Wolff News Agency stated: "Yesterday, east of Ypres, the British employed .shells and bombs filled with asphyxiating gas.” The first German gas attack was launched on April 22, 1915. No gas for a war purpose was manufactured in Britain until May, 1915. The Admiralty announces: “Since September 26, German broadcasting stations have continuously claimed that the Ark Royal was sunk. In order to allay any possible doubt caused by, this untrue statement, the Admiralty desires once more to reaffirm the fact that the Ark Royal was not sunk, or damaged in any way.” The Air Ministry announces: "Reports originating from Berlin that a British aircraft flew over the city on Saturday night are without foundation. No British aircraft was in the neighbourhood of Berlin on that night.”