A DEADLY GAS.
FLIES IMPERVIOUS
(BI CABLI—MTCSB ASSOCIATION—COPHUGHT.) (Srosw "Suh" Sbsvicb.)
LONDON, April 1.
After shonting to his colleagues in an adjoining room to run for their lives, Professor Maxwell Lefroy escaped in a semi-conscious condition from a chamber of the Imperial College of Science in South Kensington, whew ho was seeking a formula to destroy flics. Ho had been experimenting with Lewisite gas, which Groat Britain was preparing to use on the western front on tho eve of the Armistice.
Professor Lefroy asserts that if this gas were dropped~on London, people would continue to walk unaware they wero inhaling poison, yet they would bo certain to die, cither from burned lungs or pneumonia. It has been discovered that flies arc impervious to Lewisite.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18348, 3 April 1925, Page 9
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124A DEADLY GAS. Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18348, 3 April 1925, Page 9
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