MUSTARD GAS HISTORY.
1,400 CASUALTIES AT FACTORY. Some of the inner history of mustard gas, the chief product of its class used by the British in the war, was disclosed at a sitting of the War Inventions Commission, when Mr Justice Tomlin,- the president, heard the claim for a royalty of Dr. H. Levinstein and Professor A. Green, who, it was .stated, invented a new product;
A sample of their gas was later declared by the military authorities to be more toxic than that made by the earlier Pope process at the Ministry of Mi nitions factory at Avonmouth, where the attempt to make the gas resulted in 1,400 casualties. The Government ultimately abandoned th«ir attempt to make their own stuff, and set to work to make what they celled “the desirable Levinstein product,” and 545 tons of this was produced by the Government on which the claimants received no royalty.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4654, 28 January 1924, Page 2
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151MUSTARD GAS HISTORY. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4654, 28 January 1924, Page 2
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