POISON GASES.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20118, 13 February 1937, Page 7

POISON GASES.

GREAT PENETRATION. WHAT REGENT TESTS REVEAL. BRICKS AND PLASTER PEIIVIUI‘S. United Preu Ann—nee. 'l'ei. copyrient (Received Feb. 13. 12.30 pm.) LONDON. Fen. I'3. Simultaneously with a sudden overnight black—out test, at Bedtord, which was chosen as an important strategic industrial town, while Royal Air Force bombers carried out a realistic raid which seems to have awakened everybody. .\ir Victor Gollancz put lished a book describing the results or the two secret tests in connection with potson gases, carried out by a dozen scientists in a room in the bio-chemical laboratory at Cambridge. the windows and chimneys of which were sealed. Ile discloses that gas penetrated bricks and plaster. the cracks or which were covered with bron’n paper. and sealed doors and fireplaces in one room, an whioh outeide would be fatal In 2; minutee would kill Indoore In ten mlnutee. The eelentiete also teeted Incendiary homhe and dleoovel-ed that the official remedy of apreadIng eend wee ueeleae ee even welding thermlt, whloh In a comperetlvely mild Incendiary bomb. burned under water through metal end and. The test of a civilian gas mask costing iTs lid shnwmi that it would protect against chlnrlne for tour houra. but did not. snlVc the problem of protection attains! mustard gas, which attacks Ihe whole body. TAKING PREDIUTIONS. TH MEI-IT POSSIBLE ATTACKS. STEPS IN .\'E\\' SOUTH “‘ALES. United Prue Ann—lke. Tel. Copyright (Received Feh. 13. 12.30 pm.) SYDNEY. Feb. 18. The New south Walee Rallwaye Department le 00-operatlng with the Detenoe Department In teaching the procedure to he adopted In gee attache. ly the end 0' 1001 It ie expeotod that nearly 0000 railway employeee will he oapahle of giving ekllled aeetetanoe to the military In tho event of a gae attaok. The Defence Department in erecting chambers tor gee experiments for the military at Randwick. and for the navy at Garden Island. There will be specially-sealed rooms in which men iwearius masks will be planed while ‘gas is released about them. and instructors through sealed windows will observe the progress of the experimenis. ====3