TERRORS OF POSION GAS
POSSIBILITIES IN WARFARE.
COULD DESTROY LONDON.
By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.
London, Jan. 1.
Lord Halsbury, who was a major in the Royal Air Force, . writing on the perils of gas in future warfare, foresees victims being maddened by irritation till they lose all mental control of their actions. He says that some modem gases with an arsenical base may be carried in a liquid form. A comparatively small charge of high explosive would be sufficient to release their terrors when sprayed from aeroplanes. One part of diphenyl-chloroarsine in 50,000,000 parts of air was so potent that a human being was unable to live more than five minutes after inhaling it. The population of London and its environs could be destroyed in two or three days.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1933, Page 7
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