DEATH FOLLOWS IN 10 MINUTES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 25, 13 February 1937, Page 5

DEATH FOLLOWS IN 10 MINUTES

Press Aesn.

Sealed Rooms Little Defence Against Gas DETAILS 0F TE5TS

(By Telegraph—.

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(BeCoived 13, 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 12. Yictor Gollancz has published a book describing the Cambridge gas tests. He discloses that gas penetrated brick-s and plaster, cracks being covered with hrown paper and doors and fireplaces sealed. Gas which outside would bo fatal in two and a-half minates would kill indoors in ten minutes. The scientists tested iucendiary bombs and discovered that the official remedy of epreading sand is useless. Fven welding thernut, which is a coraparatively mild incendiary, burned under water through metal-sand. Completely gas-tight rooms couid only be constructed by experts at great expense. The test of t-he 17/6 civilian gasmask showed thgt it would protect against chlorine for foux> hours, but it did not solVe the problem of protection against mustard gas, which attacks ihe whole body. The Daily Herald and the Daily Mirror recently detailed apcounts of secret tests which have been carried out during the past two years by a dozen scientists in a room at the bio* cheinical laboratory at Cambridge with sealed windows and chimneys, reveaiiug that deadly gases cannot bo kept out and that even wearers of gas-niesks there were susceptible to the influcnce of the gases useffi