DROPS OF DEATH.
APPALLING POSSIBILITIES OF NEW POISON. AIR WAR VISION. New York, March 14. It is announced that the United States Chemical Warfare Service has discovered a poison so deadly that three drops on the skin are sufficient. to kill a man. There is no limit, it is declared, to its possible manufacture except that of the electric power needed. The official estimate is that -1000 tons sprayed from 400 by the Germans would have ann.JillAU'l. the American Army in the ■consisting of one and a quarter million men, in twelve hours. The department is now developing protective clothing entirely covering its -wearers.* This announcement apparently con?* firms previous reports, and, grossly exaggerated, means an entire change in war and in the meaning of* disarmament. When Mr. Baker's appropriations for the Army were cut by Congress, he complained that the Chemical Service would be reduce J to & staff of 700 igvertiga-
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 May 1921, Page 5
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