GAS ATTACKS
ILLUMINATING FIGURES
"Though in the first gas attack in the last Avar, against French colonial troops who had no gas masks or other protection, and who panicked, 5000 were killed and between 15,000 and 20,000 temporarily incapacitated, by the end of the war, when our troops had gas masks and training and did not panic, it took nearly eight tons of mustard gas to kill one British soldier. In the last two months of the war the firing of 1000 tons of mustard gas caused 540 deaths. Furthermore, it had to be remembered that the soldier at the end of the time might be exerting himself, breathing at ten times the normal rate, and might not have time to put on his gas mask. It was difficult to estimate how many tons would be required to kill one civilian, warned of a iaid and wearing a perfect gas mask, and breathing quietly aiid without exertion. On the other hand, eight tons of high explosive could kill a great number of people.":—Dr James Kendall, professor of Chemistry at Edinburgh University, in a recent address.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 146, 25 August 1941, Page 5
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185GAS ATTACKS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 146, 25 August 1941, Page 5
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