MUSTARD GAS HISTORY.

Shannon News, 23 April 1924, Page 2

MUSTARD GAS HISTORY.

1400 CASUALTIES AT STATE 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 in London, when Mr Justice Tomlin, the president heard the claim for a royalty Of Dr. H. Levinstein and Professor (A. Green, who, it was stated, inventjed a new product. ■ , J j A sample of their gas was later declared bv the military authorities to be more toxic than that made by the earlier Pope process' at the Ministry of Munitions 'factory at Avonitiouto, where the attempt, to make toe igns reshlted-in 1400 casualties. The i Govern . ultimately abandoned /their attempt.' to make their own stuff, land set* to 'work to make what they, (called “ther.desirable Levinstein produce,” tind 545-'tons of tin's was produced by the Government, on which |the cJaiituants received no royalty.