GAS PERILS.
» FUTURE WARFARE. VICTIMS MADDENED. Dire Results Foreseen By British Earl. LONDON COULD BE WIPED OUT. (United r.A— Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, January 2. The Earl o£ Halsbury, writing on the perils of gas in future warfare, foresees victims maddened by irritation till they lose all mental control of their actions. He says that some modern gases, with an arsenical base, may be carried in liquid form, and a comparatively small charge of high explosives will be sufficient to release their terrors when sprayed from aeroplanes. The earl states that one part of diphenyl chloro-arsine in fifty million parts of the air is so potent that a human being would be unable to live more than five minutes after inhaling it. The population of London and its environs could be destroyed by its use in from two to three days.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 1, 3 January 1933, Page 7
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143GAS PERILS. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 1, 3 January 1933, Page 7
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