DEADLY GASES
A NOTE OF WARNING. LONDON A DEAD CITY IN HALF A DAY, LONDON, Dec. 7. Making mathematical calculations, Lord Halsbury, addressing a peace gathering in London, estimated, that the theoretical quantity of mustard gas, the most deadly of all poison gases, required] to wipe out London, would bo 42 tons. Ho said that was a more flea-bite to what could bo brought over to London, in 12 hours. In other words, every man, woman, and child in London; might fail to live in half a day. The. only safeguard consisted of reprisals., “Let the world know we are prepared to make them,’’ lie concluded.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 99, 10 December 1928, Page 6
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