DEADLY NEW GAS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 539, 17 December 1928, Page 9

DEADLY NEW GAS

Will Destroy Armies as Easily as Man Could Snuff Out Candle

WAR YET MORE TERRIBLE

(United Service) Reed. 10.15 a.m. NEW YORK, Sunday. DR. HILTON JONES, of Chicago, an internationally known chemist, announced there is a new poison gas, cacodyliso cyanide, which is so deadly that it would destroy armies in tlie next war as easily as a man snuffs a candle.

Alongside this deadly discovery is another new metal called berryllium, of twice the tensile strength of steel, which is only half the weight of aluminium. A 400 h.p. airplane engine built of this metal would be so light that a man could carry it under his arm.

soldier ignorant of gas war endangers the security of the country. It gives a list of the 12 principal gases, grouped according to the marks used on the German gas shells in war-time. It explains the subject in popular language because “scientific literature is such solid reading.” TRIED ON ANIMALS The sample boxes resemble toy chemical outfits, which are the favourite Christmas gift for schoolboys and comprise sixty test tubes of twelve gases and sixty cartridges. A. pistol book of instructions tells how to discharge the pistol in a sealed room. Experimenters must use gas masks, but only eye irritants should thus b tried. It is recommended that deadlier gases should be tried on animals, preferably cats; also, that a doctor should be present because the medical personnel must become familiar with the proper treatment in peace time as preparation for war. The pamphlet points out besides, that, as the explossion in Hamberg showed, accidents may happen in peace time. Finally, the Stoltzenburg factory issues firstaid outfits for the treatment of gas poisoning.