ALLEGED SHOOTING OF PRISONERS.
PETROGUAD. July 21. It is officially announced that Austrian prisoners state that the Germans shot five thousand Russian prisoners at J Uawarusska. Prussic acid, properly hydrocyanic arid, is a colour Jess, highly volatile liquid, and is one -of the most deadly poisons known. Its action Hso rapict that antidotes are of comparatively little va>ue. The iact that «t js very \om- i tile, however, is against its effective , iiM in shells. It is m> called irora it?, having benn first obtained by Scheele, ' in 1782. fi-om the substance known as Prussian, or Berlin Blue.
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Press, Volume LI, Issue 15338, 23 July 1915, Page 7
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