GAS WARFARE
NAVAL EXPERIMENTS. SMOKE SCREEN AND POISON. A PENETRATING MIXTURE. BY CABLE—PBESB ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received Sept. 18, 10.5 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 17. The Daily Mail says that Royal Engineers stationed at Weymouth Pier experimentally released five hundred cylinders of a new type of smoke screen, containing a small percentage of secret poison gas, which was directed at. and enveloped the warships Tiger, Champion and Rob Rov, which were lying in the bay. The crews, who wore heavily masked, assert that the gas penetrated every part of the vessels.— Svdncy Sun Cable.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 18 September 1925, Page 5
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