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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1936.
ITALY'S WAR METHODS
H
UNDREDS of people who did in England every year, apparent- In from natural causes, are really the victims of poison-
cra.
I have not quoted this sen- tence, from a sensational crime novel. It was used recently by n sober British newspaper, in reporting an' address given to a very august body of chemists by a very cautious expert. It is, if anything, au understate- ment.
The polson laws of this and some other countries are such that the intelligent criminal can, with little risk and not much more trouble, kill for pro- fit or hatred and still retain his place in civilised society. There are, without doubt, scores of murderers walking the streets of London to-day.
The poisoner need not employ the "dendly, untraceable" exotic concoctions which gladden our reading hours, though such sub- stances do exist and are known to most doctors, But he can, and does, use poisons which are fairly readily available to most of us.
By A. P. Luscombe Whyte
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murdera. He had lived with women in various parts of the country. Each had died with symptoms which suggested ordinary diseases. Postinor- tems revealed that each had been killed by some well known". poison.
Here is one detected case. How many have never been sus- pected?.
The list of similar symptoms Belladonna pol-
is a long one.
soning can be mistaken for mania or acute alcoholism, nar- cotic poisoning for apoplexy,
Several poisons are alinost Impossible to trace. Amonitine, one of the deadliest of them all, is a good example. Even after a large dose the ordinary chemi- cal postmortem tests (should they be held) fail to.” show - traces.
True, by taking a solution from the stomach and bajecting it into a rabbit its presence will cause symptoms. But it is an unusual poison-though obtain- able without vast difficulty-and even post-mortem doctors are
busy men,...
One or two poisons leave no trace at all. One is not a
polson but a substance in com- mon use by sufferers from a cer- tain disease. An overdose causes
decomposés before a post-mor- tem can be held. Another re- contly discovered vegetable poi- son is 6,000 times deadlier than for strychnine and leaves no trace. Bobanists say it could be grown in the ordinary conservatory.
compara-
As the result of a most re- grettable series of incidents, Detected cases of killing by Italy's methods of warfare in arsenic, strychnine, antimony, Ethiopia are coming in for belladonna and the barbiturate universal scrutiny, not unmixed or other drugs are fairly com recently, "has almost invariably been mistaken for one or other heart failure, and the substance with feelings of strong dis-mon. For this reason there is
fallacious belief that these proved to have killed other vic- of these. a approbation. It is to be conceded "popular" poisons are as fatal tims without exciting suspicion that all wars are characterised to the murderer as to the mur-
until he has grown careless." charges and counter-charges, deree.
There are three reasons why This is not the truth.
the overworked "The poisoner who is brought murder by poison is still com- and it is aus necessary to weigh
Basil paratively safe. The case with up all the known facts before to justice," said Sir passing judgment.
which deadly poisons can be Thomson, former C.I.D. chief, Neverthe-
obtained; the fact that many of less, It is difficult to escape the
thom produce symptoms suf- suspicion that
ficiantly similar (to the hurried
Such disonses are tively common. Murder is not considered so. Who is to blame
doctor
stating "natural death"? By the present law he can sign a death certificate without over seeing the body so long as he has attended the patient somo
International NOTES OF THE DAY G.P.) to ordinary diseases to be time within the last week...
unnoticeable; and the rather lax system of signing death certi- ficates.
SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
BIRD-COURTSHIPS
I notice the gulls on ponds aro n ready assuming their black hoods, the I notice the gay badge of courtship. groups of bachelor finches are break- ing up, and some of them doing ordeal by battle for their lady loves.
You can tell at a glance that court- ship has begun, as most of our winter birds change their plumage, reassume ing their gayest colours as the wod- ding day approachos.
But porhaps the poisoner's greatest ally is cremation. Poison will remain in the buried. usage is being lightly treated by {
body for years, generations the Italians in their African
Strychnine exists in many even, sometimes having a most excellent tonics and. in such remarkable preserving effect. campaign. In the matter of the KEY TO A CLOSED DOOR
preparations as weed-killer. It But.cremation destroys without bombing of Red Cross units, Yesterday in the House of Com. Arsenic has always been the is a deadly and brutal poison. trace. It has been suggested Italy has endeavoured to ex-mens there was criticism of the poisoner's favourite. It is Unfortunately, though, the that cremation should always plain away these incidents by Imperial Airways from several easily obtainable in pure form, symptoms of strychnine polson- be preceded by a post-mortem,
standpoints, the most interesting to alleging abuses of the Red Cross Hongkong being that that air ser- coloured
even though by law it must be ing, though characteristic, or that bodies should be kept
with soot or indigo. closely resemble those of
for three or six months after on the part of the Ethiopians. vice should be extended in the Far And it exists in dozens of inno. tetanus. Recently a man was
death.. No such charge has been laid in East. Mra. Mavis Tate, MP cent proprietary preparations. tried and convicted in California.
thinks the schedulo should im respect of the British units mediately embrace Hongkong and Weed killers, sheep dip and for killing his "wife" with this. which have suffered from the Shanghai. Apparently Mrs. Tate wood preservatives contain up poison. Bad luck alone brought nttentions of Italian bombers, is not aware of the obstacle. to 40 per cent. of white arsenic. him to justice.
have been used by mur- China will allow no foreign nation All
When the woman died, the Athere is a certain livellness for the obvious reason
BOUT this time of the year that to operate commercial machines derers, known and unknown.
local doctor thought death was abuses would not be permitted over or in her territory. Her Acute arsenic WHAT PRICE under the auspices of a British reason is that should the grant brought about by large, fre-
poisoning, caused by tetanus. His belief among our birds, more especially was strengthened by the sight those whose thoughts turn to organisation solely concerned this favour to one, others would quent doses, is readily detect of a deep cut on her arm, caused, love; for, be it noted, there are
demand the same privilege under able. But slow LOVELINESS? with succouring the wounded. the Most Favoured Nation Cinuse
poisoning, the husband said, by a garden- bachelors and carefree old maids. Some little time back, it was of treaties. China is afraid Japan spread over weeks or months, Ing tool. Such a wound might in the bird world as well as man's pleaded in extenuation that the might have ambitions in the direc- produces much the same symp- well have been responsible. world.
tion of aerial expansion. So that toms as those of food poisoning, When the police followed up Italians had not been informed is why Britain cannot land her peritonitis, gastric ulcers, colic this man's past they discovered of the whereabouts of a unit un-planes In China. There is a way
or even cholera. It has often no fewer than four previous til it was too late to prevent the out. Imperial Airways could or- bombing, but it is to be recalled ganse in China a company with 61 per cent. Chinese interest, and that the unit subsequently again could operate it as a subsidiary. came under fire at the same spot. Lufthansa and Pan-American Air So frequent have these attacks ways discovered this key to the closed door and now operate in on the Red Cross become that China. And in the circumstances, they can hardly be put down to when it is obvious that we cannot chance indeed, so many eye-Ching, there is no more need for bargain for flying concessions with witnesses of the incidents have
hesitating to invite China-and described them as deliberate American, Dutch, French, and that it is difficult to accept the German planes for that mattor to use Hongkong as an air base and so out explanations sent
from
add something to our prestige and Rome, On this point, we have prosperity. As for the Imperial the recent statement in the Airways connection with Hong- House of Commons by Mr. kong, the Dorado is already Anthony Eden that the British of time until the service will be operating and it is only a question Government was quite unable to supplemented and accelerated, we regard as in any way. satisfac-believe. The sooner the better, wo
į might add. tory the Italian answer to # protest in connection with the attack made on a British unit. this time, Rome must be fully But there are other incidents, aware of the indignation which quite apart from the attacks on has been created as a result of the Red Cross, which have these reports, and nothing aroused public opinion in short of the most definite 're- Britain and elsewhere-the ter- butting evidence, coupled with rible destruction wrought on solemn assurances of an inten- the demilitarised town of Har-tion to respect humanitarian rar, and the allegation that for principles. in future, will satisfy seven days the Italians have public opinion throughout the been inflicting terrible injuries world. These are not matters on Ethiopian troops and which concern...one or two civilians by the use of poison nations they are of vital im- gas. If
the facts are as re- portance to all countries. If ported, there can be no question- adequate steps are not taken to ing the fact that Italy is com- reported from Ethiopia, the provent outrages of the type mitting further breaches of last vestige of humanity will international agreements. By vanish from modern warfare.
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Pleasant to listen to their cheerful mating calls, especially when the bit ter east wind lulls and a gleam of golden sunshine passes Over the brightening fields. Already the yel- low yerling has assumed his golden brown dress to meet his affinity by the golden whin bush, where he becomes poct and a
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bill, is all athrill with vibrations of lova talk,
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Upon the tallest troon both black- bird and mavis, despite the cold, have found voice, and between each fitful chaffinch chirrup there is a glint of golden sunshine. Even tho
great Hty not to be outdone, is telling the old tale to the listening roes in the quaintest of voices, rasping like a Gaw-sharpener; but it speaks of love, and the hope of spring.
"How happy the trees must ba to hear again the sopes of the birds in tiroir branches." So sang Richard Jeffrie, Nature's best interprator. J. TURNBULL ATTKIN