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DEADLY GAS HORORS.. LONDON, Jan. 11. Victims mad with irritation and tearing off their respirators, people maddened and losing all mental control—those results are envisaged by Lord Halsburv in writing of the perils from gas in future wars. With an arsenical base some of the modern gases can be carried iff liquid form, obviating the necessity for strong containers, he writes. A comparatively small charge of high explosive is all that is necessary to loosen their terrors. One part of di-phenyl-chloroarsine in 50 million parts of air is so potent that five minutes is said tot be the limit of time that a human being who had inhaled it could live. He had learned. Lord Halsburv add ed that three reputable foreign firms could by ceasing their ordinary work, produce daily 100 tons of arsenical
gases. . - : The greater part of London could be filled with lethal fumes to a height of 40 feet, with only 40 tons of such gases, while aeroplanes, flying.;, low., could disseminate poison gases through hosepipes and fill the whole Thames Valley within two or three days. -
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11833, 14 January 1933, Page 5
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