ARTIFICIAL FOG
FRENCH EXPERIMENT VILLAGE LOST FROM SIGHT VALUABLE AID TO DEFENCE [By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright] Received May 21. 5.5 p.m. PARIS, May 23 The creation of artificial fog to protest towns and villages in wartime is now regarded as a practical proposi tion. In the presence of Marshal Petain the whole village of Linsclles, near Lille, was blotted out, for half an hour from the air and land. A compound containing sulphuric anhydride and sulphuric acid was injected into four long iron tanks holding lime. Imine diatcly thick clouds emerged causing only a Slight I.armless coughing among the spectators. The cost will be small, and communities will be able to make their own protective >ni(>ke screens.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 121, 25 May 1931, Page 7
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117ARTIFICIAL FOG Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 121, 25 May 1931, Page 7
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