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POISON GAS

ospects

Political uncer ities are

the minds doubt affec many Hostilities in China and in Spain, the tension between

• political dogmas en

the Continent, and

trength of the opponents –– President Roosevelt in / all have their effect upon mar timent. The fact

When a story is put out in the form of propaganda plam and un- disguised, making allegations the use of phosgene gas shells by the Chinese forces in Shanghai, it is natural to look round for the ulterior motive. Nobody be. lieves the accusation. Were at monstrated beyond a shadow a doubt that the Chinese eve gas shells available it would casion the profoundest surpri for while the Chinese Army has made immene strides in techm- cal efficiency, nothing is mo certain than that the employ- ment of poison gas is completely outside the scope of its experi- ence It has had a gigantic enough task in mastering the ary loss. problems of modern war, probe argued away

now being vided by the long range gun and

the aeroplane, the deadly effi

or ignored that from

of the same ut the years of triumphed over ins true that

mider suc

ciency of the machine gun in de The Mouse fence and the tank. The Japan-

from

per

28 not to

ese ask belief in their charge on Two tiny leaf-eared the "evidence" of a solitary shell-were the first catch of the bold case supposed to have been sub-American explorers who climbed Ljected to scientific study. It into the Lost World" of the would be dubious evidence at the Grand Canyon. To the unscien- best as being so easily capable tific it may seem a paltry result of self-manufacture. There is from a expedition which" no corroboration. Not a single mised such wonderful possibili Japanese sufferer

the ties That forest plateau of effects of phosgene or any other Shiva's Temple, the mushroom type of gas has been produced top of a solitary, precipitous mass There is, indeed, an air of un-of rock, has been isolated, science reality about the whole business, pronounced, from the rest of the for which there can be only one earth since long before the first of two explanations. Either an man walked the American Con- xiety has been caused by the documented testimony of foreign doctors that Chinese soldier ients have passed through hands suffering from the of poison gas. Or, more serio the intention is to use the as a protext for the use son gas by the Japanese on extensive scale by way of re prisal?

at

Whatever the truth time alone can reveal it.

lly again submitting

herself to

If

COFF-

It allured the Ameri-

Zoologists 28 the mo interesting experimental biolog

orators

#ferect They hoped survivals,

evolved on unknown and

There has been some sion The "lost" ou

not to have been

offset the though,

like so long as they

They found

the judgments

it turns out

ter-propaganda

(or good)

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