PROFESSOR’S CLAIMS
FOR A NEW TOXIN. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, Sept. 4. There is a- toxin which could he employed to kill millions of men, declares Professor Leonard Hill, contrasting the power of the scientific laboratory with modern war machinery./ If men were as susceptible as guinea pigs to a. toxin which shall be nameless, and there is every reason to think that they are, it would appear that one salt spoonful of tins dry toxin would suffice to kill a million men. The toxin acts if inhaled or if it falls on the eye in a powder. If such toxin were prepared and scattered from, an aeroplane wliat would he the use of the panoply of
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1929, Page 5
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120PROFESSOR’S CLAIMS Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1929, Page 5
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