ANTI-GAS PRECAUTIONS
TESTS PROVE USELESS masks and shelters BRITISH DISCLOSURES (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn (Reed. Feb. 13, noon) LONDON, Feb. 12. Simultaneously with a sudden overnight black-out test at Bedford, which was chosen as an important strategic industrial town while Royal Air Force bombers carried out a realistic raid, which seems to have awakened everybody, Victor Gollaucz has published a book describing the Cambridge poison gas tests. He discloses that the gas penetrated bricks, plaster cracks covered with brown paper, sealed doors, and fireplaces. In one room, gas, which outside would be fatal in Z' 2 minutes, woifld kill indoors in 10 minutes. Scientists tested incendiary bombs and discovered that the official remedy of spreading with sand was useless. Even welding thermit, which is a comparatively mild incendiary, burned under water through metal and sand. . Completely gas-tight rooms could only be constructed by experts at great expense. An .earlier‘test of'a'civilian gas-mask showed that it would protect against chlorine for four hours, but did not solve the problem of protection against mustard gas, which attacks the whole body.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19248, 13 February 1937, Page 5
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