SPRAYS OF DEATH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 170, 20 July 1935, Page 13

SPRAYS OF DEATH.

FUTURE AERIAL WAR. (Special.-—By Air Mail.) LONDON, June 22. The probable effect of an aerial gas attack on civilian population was described by Mr. J. Davidson Pratt in a lecture to the British Science Guild in London this week. He pointed out that with gases of the blistering type, such as mustard gas, which burned the skin and any other part of the body with which they came in contact, protection for the whole body was required. These gases were liquids with high boiling points, and could be sprayed from aircraft from practically any height to fall like rain on the ground. With mustard gas. when the contamination was heavy, it might take days under cool weather conditions before all the liquid had evaporated and contaminated objects were safe to handle. He contended that there should be in every house, office or building a gasprotected room or rooms in which the occupants could remain until the allclear signal was given. " There will naturally have to be some provision in the way of public gasproof shelters for people caught in the streets," said Mr. I Pratt.