A POISONED RIVER.
A._ stock of 5000 tons of perchlorate Cf 31n1110rJ.'.t, which was‘ used during the war for the manuflacture of explosives, and which represents a total value of twenty million francs, has been thrown into fhe river Arve, France, as the sinlplcst'oW.a_v or disd posing of if. Apart from the financial! loss entailed by such a proceeding, the chemical has poisoned The river at least as far as its junction with the .-Rhone. killing ‘all living‘ thingfs-in the water. .
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3339, 18 November 1919, Page 5
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81A POISONED RIVER. Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3339, 18 November 1919, Page 5
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