LONDON VULNERABLE TO DEADLY GAS
(United Service) . LONDON, Friday. After making mathematical calculations, the Earl of Halsbury, in an address at a peace meeting in London, said he estimated that the theoretical quality of mustard gas, the deadliest of all poison gases, required to destroy London, would be 42 tons. That amount was a mere fl.ea.bite to what could be brought over London in 12 hours. In other words, every man. woman and child in London might lose his life in half a day. The only safeguard consisted of reprisals. Britain should let the world know thdt she was prepared to make them.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 532, 8 December 1928, Page 9
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103LONDON VULNERABLE TO DEADLY GAS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 532, 8 December 1928, Page 9
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