Fatalities Through Explosion Barrels of Poison Gas: Panic in Hamburg: Terrors of Future Warfare Hamburg, May 21.
So far there have been three' ensued, Crowds fled to Hamburg. Whole streets were evacuated. deaths and 32 persons have been taken to hospital as the result of the bursting to-day of a number of. barrels containing phosgene gas—used during the Great War as poison-gas—which were stored in chemical factory near the har-hour. The barrels burst, apparently, owing to the warm weather.
The wind blew the gas in the direction of Wilhelmsburg, where a number of people became affected.
Nearly Two Haundred Casualties The death-roll as the result of the recent bursting of a number of barrels containing phosgene gas now totals ten, while 171 persons fare undergoing treatment in. has. pital.
The police are confiscating all food-stus likely to *have been affected by the mas.—Reuter, 'The Fire Brigade tried to fight' the gas with water while gas-masks and ammonia were being despatehed from Berlin.
All residents in the danger-zone have been removed, Reichswehr troops assisting in their removal.
Later, The bursting of a number of wrrels of phosgene gas gave the city a terrible foretaste of what is likely to happen to cities in future wars, The gas poisoned five "per sons and seriously harmed scores of other citizens before the danger was realized.
Rain helped the fire brigades' hoses to disperse the gas. Gas-nashs from Berlin arrived too late, The question is being asked as to why the firm in whose chemical factory the gas had been stored should have been in possession of poison-gas, the manufacture which, is forbidden in Germany by the Treaty of Versaille Phosgene is used in the facture of dyes, for whi presumed, the firm had it, it is reported that barrels of old war stock had been bought for export to North Amer Later, The dear wil is now eight, The gas, after escaping from th> tanks, "aw lors suddenly dropped senseless, that it swept towards the Hundreds of people, awaiting the election results, we suddenly taken ill, A' panic the
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