POISON GAS
SECRET BUT DEADLY. EXPERIENCES OF PROFESSOR. DURING INVESTIGATION WORK. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT . . Received April 2, 10.45 a.m, LONDON, April 1. After shouting to his colleagues in an adjoining room to run ior their live®, Professor Aiaxwell Lelroy escaped in a semi-conscious condition from a chamber at the Imperial College of Science in South Kensington, where he was seeking a formula to destroy‘flies. He had been experimenting with lewisite gas, which Britain was preparing to use on the Western f ront a.t the Armistice time. ' Professor- Lefroy assert® thgf. if it dropped on London, people would com tinue to. walk unaware that they weref inhaling poison, yet. they were certain to die, either from burned or from pnetiimonia, JLt was discovered that flies were impervious to lewisite —Sydney Sun Cables.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 April 1925, Page 5
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131POISON GAS Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 April 1925, Page 5
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