THE NEXT WAR
AVARNING OF HORRORS. (United Press Association.—Bj IClectri. Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON. Fel). 2. “Unless.you arouse the nation to tlu* needs of organisation, it might he faced with the sleep of death,” declared Lord Halshurv lecturing at the Royal Sanitary Society’s Institute, on the “Horrors of Poison Gas in the Next AVur.” Dr. Humphreys visualised every house fitted with a gas-proof room, also masked detachments and the flushing of streets to destroy liquid poisons before these could disseminate gases. The Major said that it would also bo neoessary to decontaminate people’s clothing. Tt also would he necessary to organise motor transport for the evacuation of the danger zones, on each of which zones merely one bomb, concentrated with liquefied mustard gas, would devastate a square mile of territory.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1929, Page 6
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128THE NEXT WAR Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1929, Page 6
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