ESSENCE OF DEATH.
_ln the Dopal'tmen_t of the Interior exhibition at Washington, is a. new clieniical, of which a. thousand tons were being nlanuf:lc«tul'od when the arniisticc was signed. It is a poison named “Lewistite” after the inventor, Profesor Lewis, of Chicago. One drop of this liquid poured into the palm of the: hanld.” -‘would (the papers siay) penetrate fo the heart, killing almost instantly. Ten aeroplanes could have carried enough Lewistite to wipe out every vestige of life in Berlin. If the armistice had nof been signed’ 1000 tons would have reached the American front in France by March. '
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Taihape Daily Times, 20 August 1919, Page 5
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100ESSENCE OF DEATH. Taihape Daily Times, 20 August 1919, Page 5
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