Deadly Poison Missing
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) LONDON, Nov. 4. Police throughout Britain are today seeking a missing box containing enough poison to kill half a million people.
The box, which was being consigned from India to Hungary, and disappeared from a warehouse at London Airport, contains 301 b of strychnine nitrate crystals—deadly poison which looks like soap flakes. Broadcast Warning
Chemists, who estimated that the box contained enough poison to kill 500,000 people, said a child who even touched ,he crystals and then licked its fingers would almost certainly die.
Urgent warnings were broadcast over television and radio when the box was reported missing yesterday and a description of the
poison was circulated to houses in the vicinity of the airport.
The police in other cities have been alerted. A full-scale search is also under way around London Airport in case the wooden box was still on the airfield.
Strychnine nitrate is used in very small doses for heart diseases.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30900, 5 November 1965, Page 17
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