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When Mr. Samuel Turner told me to- day that he was staggered" by' the "re- Sult of his visit to the United States I was impressed by his use of the word, bes cause he is a' typical, gook, long-headed. farsighted Lancashire man who has built up the great asbestos nafacturing coat etern of Turner Brós, Etc. - ``

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For the present, prévision has Jwen made for the maintenance of the service until the end of this fiscal year. At the end of that time a definite decision mast be mached. Major Gen. William L.

Mr. Turner, knows all that can be learn Sibert, Director of the" Chemical Warfared about American labour-saving devicea Service, as asked in Washington thend organisation. He has also written other day what he thought about making during the two notable bucks, this service a permanent part of the army

Eclipse de Empire! Mof which he was establishment.

part author, ander; Fran War to Work." What was it that staggered "this modern træginess builder ?

went 10 the hired States, be told me, to find out what were the prospects of this coun- try and it world trade in competition with the United States under after-the- war conditions spent two months in the East and Middle West investigating industrial conditions, and I was stagger- ed by the result. I found that in hardly, uns industry are we able to compete withi the Waited States

While the use of toxic gas," he saith " was one of the instruments of warfare it was responsible for from 5 to 30 per wut of the army casualties This shows. it to have bees one of the naust effective instruments of the war, sa that its re- tention.om the ground of effectiveness needs no argaivot.

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The records lan show that when nemies were provided with masks and other defensive appliances, only about or 4 per cent of the gas casualties were fatal. This meets one of the other whief Chumility.

eriticisms bright against it that of in

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War. the casualties which

by gas than by bullets, and of the remainder .of the gas casualties the greater portion were left without permanent injury, all of which goes to prove that the argumentiderably cheaper in the nited States. that gas is entitpared with other weapons particularly so it the well-known Ame of warfare, is inhumane, is unsound. Fican standardised system is adopted.

Wages in the United States are from to 30 per vent, higher, the rate vary- * Mupther, abjection that has been rating with the locality. One of the that it is likely to cute casualties among pays unskilled hour 18, sd per hour and ed against the use of gas is on the ground manufacturing concerns in Cincinnati -Targant

Bongombatant bystanders The fact skilled labour, such as carpenters, 2, per

that gas does drift with the wind for buur. ensiderable distances and, in the pure If a man wishes to put up a new fae- se of it. this wand simply mean that tory in the United States he can place Truter areas must be given thing that makes the left war, Ang-contract, subject to penalty if the time excreded for construction during the territory for war purposes takes just that spring and summer. in tour months. much from agriculture of manuffeture Here a similar building would take a additional snerifier of territory for war year. The British restriction pou the ases is therefore another element of effee number of bricks a riau may lay comer tiveness in the weapon. It will be neo-

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Sarpeise is one of the main elements of war, and there is no weapon that con tains more possibilities of surprise than gas," said the General A single sub stance kept secret night determine the tide of battle-something that would penetrate gas maska would make an ariny as helpless as the English were at, Ypres when the Germans sent over the first cloud of chlorine."

Do you expect gas to be used future wars? S

on its effectiveness and its

menest answered Gerora! Sert, it certainly will be an important el ent in a future war unless the use of it should be prohibited by international agreement. A to the probabilities in that field would not venture an in-

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POČOFSAL, DENASIKAN.

The United States, singularly ravazh was the exception among the leading powers in not joining the agreement of The Hague Conference in 10 gainst the use of projectiles whose only object was to give out suffocating or poisonous Kases. Germany signed and ratified it 12 September, 1990, but the United States never did se.. This declaration was not binding, however, in case of wat in which a nonsignatory power was a beligerent.

Ender the tion will probable Nations the ques thrashed but angs One of the arguments of those opposed to als use will to that if the competition permitted to continue there will be the incentive to discover more deadly gases than any now known, and that in a futare wa disasters солонча would le intes possible by the use of such in scope gases. The answer of the defenders of This method is that nature sets a limit to such destruction, just as it does to the sweep of other weapons of warfare, auch as the big guns.

Should the 'nited States intervene in

I found evidence on every band that the United States is fully aware of these advantages. Nationalisation is out of the question, there. No one wants is ap

asks for it.

PROFITH HAVOND THEIR DREAMS.

A to finance. the position of Ace can rins is better than ever. No fr which came within my notice we an ex ception to the rule. They have practic- ally unlimited funds in their own trea suries. For two years before they came into the war they sold their output at auc tion to the warring nations, making pro- fits beyond dreams. And now they are using these funds for purposes of national aggression.

On the top of these advantages you have

the fact that the exchange is all in their favour. When the United States is buying Trom us she gets in worth of goods for En: when we may from her we

y El for 10 worth

Her industrial position is far better than ours. While certain measures have ueen taken against unrest her condition is nothing approaching ours. Labour in determinedly and ruthlessly for its wr Americh is not political. While it fights band, there is no underlying principle at the rat srking to upset existing social conditions."

ful man, who is a master of detail in Mr. Turner, quiet, earnest, thought- his own large mills and has organised a world-wide trade in its products. gavo are these farts with the air of a man who is rerolving then all the time in his

ind

said,

Far as there is only one hope," he raising production per man to the United to bend our backs to the task of States level. High wages and short hours can be permanently maintained only with large production. The root cause of the Americans' growing prosperity is that cipline and control from the directing labour there certs the necessary dis ability of men placed over it and makes. na attempt to destrict output.-Daily Wait.

Mexico, gas would be one of the most frightened men veiled out their warn effective weapons procurable, at the same ings, was taken for a gas cloud, and hun time saving much loss of life, us an offdreds of people were soon in a wild stam- eer pointed out in Washington the other pede. day Tim

tear gases and those whien make people sick at the stomach could be used ngalast the Mexicans to put them to roul with small loss of life. The more ignorant the people, the more likely they Be to love self-control and be thrown into a panic by gas, with its element of mystery.

STARTING A PANIC.

This was illustrated by a happenity in this country during the war which it was thought best at that time to pass over with acant altention.

"A man in a watch-tower of the Pennsyl vania Railrond, catching the panic, stop- ped traffic on the road for 45 minutes, so that passengers on the trains might be protected from danger of death from war gas.

An offer on duty who was caught in the full tide of panic was seized with the symptoms of gas poisoning, fell down and thereafter duly gave every sign including vomiting. It was estimated that the panic, more or less acute form, spread to 3,000

persons. And they imagined it all, the officers in charge at Edgcheld da for there was no gas to escape.

After cided to operate the plant with soldier jabour.

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It was when the big army gas plant at Edgewood, Md., Was being erected, Many of the buildings were up and much of the machinery installed, but no gas had been made, and such was the veil of

But Mexican gouts would be harder to secrecy over all that the carpenters at put to fight. Though nothing was said Work on the unfinished buildings were in it during the war, goats were used in the dark as to this. In order to dispose America for trying gases on, to determine of a small amount of chlorine one of the how many shells of a certain gas should chemists threw it over some raw lime. A fired in a given battle area to make workman, passing near

Goats, the building,sualties out of men.

it was smelled this and called out to a group and for this reason they were chosen for had 1 strong resistance. to gas, workmen

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would be placed experiments. workman started down the road, elling in a trench and, a shell exploded near as he went. He met several four-horse

him

After having been affected by the teams and they multiplied the alarm gna he would be killed, and teste made

The drivers turned the teams in the oppo site direction and, as they fled, they rais ed a cloud of dust. The cloud, as the (Continued at foot of next column.)

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