British Army Tests U.S. Tear Gas

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30712, 30 March 1965, Page 13

British Army Tests U.S. Tear Gas

(N Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) SALISBURY (Southern England), March 29.

A British colonel stepped yesterday into a cloud of the gas used by the Americans in Vietnam—and half an hour later, feeling none the worse, sat down to lunch. Colonel A. I. Hulton, army’s defence nuclear biological and chemical school, demonstrated the effects of a type of tear gas called CS. Standing in barbedwire enclosures bristling

with warning notices, the colonel strode into a cloud of the gas for 20 seconds and then returned for photographs to be taken. When he inhaled the gas, his eyes watered, he coughed, heaved, choked, bent double, went red in the face, and became, as the army put it, “confused, irritated and had lost the will to go on.” A minute after inhaling the gas he was able to talk, although a trifle breathlessly.