A DEADLY TOXIN
POWER OF SCIENCE. WIDE DESTRUCTIVE FORCE. A PROFESSOR ’S OPINION. nited Press Association—By Electric n. Copyright..) United Service). Received 12.45 p.m. to-day. .'LONDON, iSept. 4.
“There is a toxin which could be employed to kill millions of men,” declares Professor Leonard Hill, .when contrasting the power of the scientific laboratory with modern war machinery. “If men wore susceptible as guinea pigs ro a toxin which shall be nameless. and there is every reason to think that they are, it would appear that one salt spoonful of this dry toxin would suffice In kill r. million men. The toxin acts if inhaled, or if it falls on the eye. ft is a powder. If such a toxin were prepared and scattered from an aeroplane, what would he the nse of the panoply of .war?”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 5 September 1929, Page 9
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136A DEADLY TOXIN Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 5 September 1929, Page 9
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