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Show Deadliest Poison Ever Discovered Ready for Hens WASHINGTON, May 2!.. Guard, ed nlzlit and day and far out of human reach on a pedestal at the interior department exposition here, is a tiny vial. It contJ-im a specimen of the deadliest poison ever known. It is "Lewisite," product pro-duct of an American scientist. Ton airplanes carrying "Lewisite" "Lewis-ite" would have wiped out every vestije cf life human, animal and vegetable i:i Ee-lin. A single day's output would snuff out the four million Lives on Manhattan island. A single drop poured in the ' palm of the hand would penetrate to the blood, reach the heart and till the victim in grsat agony. What was coming to Germany may be imagined by the fact that when th? armistice was signi-i it was being rjr nuf act ur'.d rt the rate of t?tn ons a ciay. Three thousand tsr.s of fa's ivost terrible instrument ever conceived for killing would have been ready for busiiie. s on the American front in ITanre on March 1. 9 1 |