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MAY 29, 191 THE SIDDELEY " SISKIN."—A couple of snaps taken recently. This machine possesses several unusual features. Thus the undercarriage is of the Oleo type. The top plane is slightly larger than the lower one, and the inter-plane struts are raked. The engine is a 340 h.p. A.B.C. " Dragonfly." feat, he may mount to a still higher plane, from which there is no re turn. POISON gas was quite clever —from the Ger man point of vision—so long as the Huns only were using it on the Allies. But when they had to take their own medicine and a bit more, then indeed were we all that was inhuman. Yet they apparently only just missed the best part of the retaliation begotten from their own initia tion, as details of the deadliest poison the world has ever known, which at the time of the signing of the armistice was being manufac tured at the rate of three tons a day for use against the Germans, have just been re vealed, says the New York Times. Its name is Lewisite. It is thejdiscovery of Professor Lee Lewis, of the United States BJu lean of Mines. Ten aero planes, it is stated, could have carried enough Lewisite to wipe out every trace of animal and vegetable life in Berlin. A single day's out put would kill every human being in New York. Even a drop poured on the hand, it is said, would penetrate to the blood and reach the heart, causing the victim to die in agony. REALLY it is almost a pity some of this pretty little condiment could not have been tried on the enemy. But that's just his luck. Anyway, if this sort of thing spells progress, hardly further argu ment is required for our main taining supre macy in the air. Shall anyway be curious to learn its nature. Has it, we wonder, any relation to some intense ex tract of Govern- m e n t War A Snow-Drop 709 sausage butter ? or
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