CIVILIANS' GAS MASKS
INEFFICIENCY DENIED RECENT TESTS IN ENGLAND CONDITIONS CRITICISED LONDON, August 22 The Home Office claims that the '40,000,000 gas masks stored for civil ■nse are efficient. The statement follows the sensational test in a gas chamber from which only one person emerged .unscathed. The test was organised by the Daily Express.
Fourteen men and women wore masks selected at random from stocks at an air raid precautions centre. Seven of them tottered gasping from the gas -chamber in less than the test period of 10 minutes.
" The tests were carried out in heavy concentrations of arsenical smoke," the Home Office points out./' The smoke was confined in a gas chamber, not released out of doors. "Such concentrations would not be experienced in .the open under war conditions. Civilian gas masks have been tested against the highest concentrations of gas, including chemicals, likely to-be experienced during an attack."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23129, 30 August 1938, Page 12
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