London, Nov. 4.
Somewhere fifty feet below five London Hospitals is buried £360,000 ($1,440,000) worth of radium—enough to kill half a million people.
For many months the radium Commission has been employed working out some scheme whereby the possibility of radium dispersing after heavy bombing could be avoided, and this "burial"—the radium placed in special brass containers and lowered into specially prepared safe deposits—is the result, It is hoped: that in this way every scrap of radium in the country will be accounted for—United Press. neutrality is a positive neutrality. This is, of course, greatly dissatisfying for the Germans"—Reuter.
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