Show OVER oo SUFFER fROM POISON GA GAS Many in Hospitals of Germany Will Die Physicians Say l HAMBURG Germany May 22 AP The AP-The The cloud of ot phosgene one of the deadliest of the war gues Which hung over Hamburg j and nd claimed eleven lives had been dissipated dissipated dissipated but Its itlena e still lingered today Moro More th than persons Were In n hos hospitals Authorities believed man many of ot these might die since t the e egas gas sometimes does not have fatal effects Until a a. week after it is In In in- haled A content of only a R half a agrain agram agram gram grain to a cubic meter of ot air all is sufficient to ta cause Se death All available milk in the tho city was requisitioned to serve as tS s antidotes antidote There were 08 18 persons in Hamburg hospitals about bout 10 lOt oth others rs ut it Wilhelmsburg WH- WH helmsburg and 3 Oat Harburg Phosgene poisoning poIsoning- causes a n purulent purulent puru puru- lent inflammation of tile the lungs lUnS's aBdIn ned and in cas casOs s where consciousness ss Is re- re death comes comM after horrible suffering ANIMALS KILLED C Cattle lay dead in flie he fields chickens ns and ducks in the farmyards farm yards ards and dogs and cats In iii th tho city streets mutO ts-mut ts mute evidence of the terrible ter ter- ter- ter I tible death which crept through the sleeping city Trees Trees' grass and growing crops shriveled as the silent menace spread Three hundred and fifty f families driven from froni their homes in terror by deaths death's Silent approach were permitted to return when the authorities authorities aUthorItIes au were convinced that the gas had been dissipated by wind and rain ram They returned They shuddered as they Uley reflected upon their close escape from death and Upon the sufferings which might be inflicted Upon a defenSeless de de- people by gas gal bombs dropped from airplanes in time of war As they watched experts from Berlin remove other phosgene containers containers con con- from the neighborhood of the city the people advocated that the storage of deadly gases near urban ulban communities be prohibited Th They Y demanded the pr providing of an adequate supply of ct ga gas masks masl s accessible ac ac- ac for public use at t any time CAUSE NOT DETERMINED The exact cause caulle of the tragedY was not established The gas was in jn containers contaIners' in the Free Port section section sec see tion of the city when a tank conta containing con con- ta tabling eight cubic meters cubic feet burst The lid was forced off and a section of the corrugated iron fIon roofing was torn off oft the building Experts thought ht that an Unduly warm atmosphere caused the deadly ga gas to burst tho the container container con coti- tamer since phosgene at lit lita ata ata a rel relatively low v temperature Once free fitful breezes carried the vapor back baek and forth across the tho district killing man and animal l alike who ho chanced let to be m in its path Two brothers peacefully fishing on the banks of a canal l near the leaking leaking leak leak- ing lug unconscious A shift in the wind carried the the gas to a p pleasure resort where men women and children n among them a wedding party were wera making merry Some fell fel unconscious from their chairs which were wOre grouped about the table talle set for the feast least aders dropped in terrible agony Soon the cry poison polson gas arose arosa arose and and panic re resigned CITY TERROR STRICKEN The Tile entire section of the city near the t tanks was vas terror Police rolice Po Po- ro- ro lice herded the populace into the tue emigrant sheds of the port Motor ambulances rushed the victims to hospitals Firemen n and ambulance attendants attendants' insufficiently protected rot by Iy smoke m m- ks eks fell in the Wor Work of rescue v Adequate le masks Were er rushed from Berlin BerHn b by airplane no And ln protected by these es th the firemen got close enough to the leaky tank to dilute Its contents eon con con contents tents and na empty l i it into the Canal ah l. l Others fo foUght the cloud with w water ter and ammonia Then the rain came and dec decomposed mosed m- m posed nosed the gas Into clem elements which the atmosphere might absorb without without with with- out harming the people As a pre precautionary pre cautionary measure masks w were r i distributed to th the people of an area trea ea Which It was believed might still be FIRMS FIRM'S STATUS MYSTERY There was as mystery as to the exact status of the chemical firm where here the phosgene gas was ItS stored It was believed to be beth the same firm which five years ears a a- a awas was granted a permit by the ministry of ot defense for manufacture of gas for use by bythe bythe bythe the Russian government In Samara the Ukraine This firm later went bankrupt and was taken over by bythe bythe bythe the ministry of ot defense for liquida liquida- tion Major General Amos A. A Fries chief of ot the chemical w warfare service ser ser- vice of ot the American war department department department depart depart- ment said In Washington that none df of the A gas s was to have been shipped p d to fo the United States for use of the American army The war department department depart depart- ment he said had long ago found foun foun that It could produce its own gas more cheaply than thirn it could import i General Fries s added lidded however has that for some time Germany been shipping gases to America in commercial form Phosgene is used In d dye e manufacture after lifter it has been altered to eliminate t its poisonous pals pois onous qualities that th the deadly gas gils I was stored in Germany set league I If of f nations circles abuzz Germany under the treaty treat of Versailles is forbidden to either use manufacture sto- sto asphyxiating ture lure im import ort or S rises PROBE DISCUSSED There was some talk ot of an Iny Investigation s- s tl by the league since Int inter r- r allied control cf at Gernt German n armaments became tile the duty of ot the league in 1927 SUch investigation would have to be called for by a member of f i gue jue ue Then the l lea league U I I would decide whether the protest st was Os lis justifiable and if It found that it was 11 an Investigating committee Those In league circles said that tile the tragedy indicated that the time had arrived when strict control bv by all aU nations and the league of the manufacture u iu poison gases was necessary l I Many ny of ot tr U- U victims now in hospItals hospitals hospi hospI- tais suffering from gas poisoning cannot be saved physicians fear tear and even those discharged as cured m may be afflicted with lung trouble I Ilor for lor Ye years lS GENEVA May 22 AP AP Tt It was stated today In lc league gUe of nations circles that the military Commission had authorized three thre German firms to manufacture ro f fo fo purposes |