DEADLY NEW GAS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 91, 13 July 1928, Page 5

DEADLY NEW GAS

''.'■*-■■■-.■'' -: : l l \ii i ' ' ' ' WORSE THAN PHOSGENE. ;, | • V MISSION IN-HOUSE' OF ,».! : " ;V .'"" ■ LOIID&. : i> t ;&( ■ '•**lnQuiriiig ijf effective schemes 3ia<l 'bMn'' for repeilM^'larie tJaicale aii* raid si accompanied by gas \pf \Lordg drew attention to. the ■'liecpnfy explosions of phosgene, gas ati| Hamburg.' ; | v "'- ! .'. :' ~.-7V f| .- ,-.••,-■•; ■"'.'" Lord Halsbury saiil the accident I aV f Hamburg, showed* that it would) : ' M€«d 2000 tons of phosgene to produce a-lethal atmosphere over the whole .og Leiidoti within a three to four ' miles radius; Phosgene for wa'r pur...pooey -wasi las' out-of-data as the, tyundertroa. . ~ . ,^There 1 ' J was. a ■ new ga's so •. deadly "fehat one part in ten million parts of<>air b&* *mgs within a minute, said LotUi A; bomb: containing >1 the 'ijew/'g*, dropped in Piccadilly .€?*■' cus„'iWo»ild kJUf every ■mian.;,, .woman •ftnd'child fi-om Park to p}\® ~ r . , /t . rjj| ~.-.t , «J j ~-^esel 1 statements were based on 4 "War office manual on chemical war"fare: -" : The I manual cost only ''••nm'e> Ipence, but it should be given away If feVerMfadult in: Britain , read J« there would bei such a wave) of indignation and righteoulThorror ihat the people would do anything to make Bom© agreement to put these things under inte*tiaiiohal control? to pretheif us©, in 'warfare. They could tnd6 Goyernmientsi from making gas/as the process was simple. • ."'Buildings 1 might be made gas).: pTMf- : ; giving some breathing and allowing the gas t 0 dis. '•ptr'se. Electricity' and cither means rilight be found to disperse gas. by ■■^ct^^rro^^sewers^; 1 ' ■'Thief Mfaaiqritf' of Salisbury ; said •■Hire' wfts ho.'tie'ed' for" panic; Lord icVgbt to (havjs ■ Jfefledbett 'before taking tgtich f a speech,' whieh\ wWbound to h'iJve the gravest effeefl "*outside. The last word had- not -been Wid in defence gas. There'might be many methods tmtigatmgTan attack with which it would he indiscreet to deal. *■ The circumstances of the phosgene •*sh" Hamburg passing from the old army Mfo ai chemical firm were.,a,tt ■pi-eserti" the subject of' diplomatic Correspondence. The Al'lies had no; longer powers of examination and •'control-of'the manufacture of poison, gas W'Germanyi aathe disarmament* clauses" in' the Versailles Treaty was The 1 Air Ministry and the War Officd ■ were •constantly,' paying attention; M defence against air raids. .- -'