USE OF GAS IN WARFARE
“DANGER PSYCHOLOGICAL” EXAGGERATED CLAIMS MADE EXPLOSIVES MORE DEADLY LEADING SCIENTIST’S VIEW (British Official Wireless.) Rec. 5.5 p.m. Rugby, Jan. 27. Dr. Freeth, one of the leading British scientists, speaking at London, said that exaggerated statements had been made regarding the dangers from gas to the civil population in any future war. It had its perils, but its scope in warfare was extraordinarily limited and not to be compared with the uses or destructiveness of high explosives and machine guns. For example, Dr. Freeth said, during the war the percentage of deaths from mustard gas to casualties from mustard gas was under four. Chemical warfare had secured such a hold on the imagination of the civil population that the main danger was psychological.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 January 1934, Page 7
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