London, Sept, 14.
The German "Government has agreed to observe the terms of the Geneva Gas Protocol of 1925, pro hibiting the use of poisonous and asphyxiating gas, and bacteriological methods of warfare.
This was revealed in the House of Lords today by the Foreign Secret ary, Lord Halifax.
Sir Nevile Henderson, the former British Ambassador in' Berlin, the Foreign Secretary stated, when asking for his passport from the Germs Government, enquired whether Ger many would observe the terms of the Protocol.
The German Government had now replied in the affirmative to this enquiry, through the Swiss Minister in London, who was in charge of their interests, The German Government, Lord Halifax added, was reserving full Uberty of action in the event that the provisions of the protocol were Iinfcinged by the Allies—Reuter.
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