WIPING OUT LONDON
—-;—« ■ EFFECT OF POISON GAS HAFEG U MID IN REPK ISALS United Service. LONDON, 7th December. Making mathematical calculations, Lord Halsbury, addressing a peace gathering in London, estimated that the theoretical quantity of mustard gas, the most deadly of all poison gases, rcqnirod to wipo out London would be forty-two lons. He said that this was a moro iieabito to what could be brought over to London ,in' twelve hours. In other words, every man, woman, and child in London might fail to live in half a day. The only safeguard consisted of reprisals. "Let the worJd know we aro prepared to make them." ...
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 131, 8 December 1928, Page 9
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106WIPING OUT LONDON Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 131, 8 December 1928, Page 9
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