CHEMICAL WARFARE
BRITISH SCIENTIST'S VIEWS * - - DANGER OVERRATED (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, RUGBY, .January 27. Dr Freeth, one of the leading British scientists, speaking in London, said that exaggerated-' statements had been made with regard to the_ dangers from gas to civil populations in any future war. It had its perils, but its scope in warfare was extraordinarily limited, and would not be compared with the uses or destructiveness of high explosives or machine guns. For example, during the war the percentage of deaths from mustard gas to the casualties from explosions u;as under four. Chemical warfare got such a hold on the imagination of the civil population that the main danger was psychological.
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Evening Star, Issue 21632, 30 January 1934, Page 9
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115CHEMICAL WARFARE Evening Star, Issue 21632, 30 January 1934, Page 9
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