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lo discussing the poisonous carbon- momxide as
a military weapon the authors go closely into the methods of deferce and the
gas discipline" of #roops The idea of the neutralization. of gases by the simultaneous release of a chemical reagent Was abandoned impracticable at an early stage of gas warfare, and the evolution of the pr tective mask, from a handful of cotton waste soaked with anti-chlor (o theo-sulphate) held before the mouth, The mobbing of the Allied inspecting down to the hideous post-war contrap- offers at Ingolstadt, for which the Ger- tions with their trunk-like chemical res man Government has just tendered an "pirators is fully described even to the apology to the Military Mission of Con-maska designed for horses and dogs. But trol, and the discovery of large stores the authors come to the conclusion that in the present state of gas development, October 30th have again drawn attention this, only safe inusk (if the word safety so the problem of German disarmament. can be used at all) is the oxygen-breath-
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At most them can be destined for enbination of gas with tank evolution the settlement ef intereal questions.
But General Nolles, the French Minis in she war when gas attacks were made on the lines first developed by the British ter of War, touched on a fundamental from railway trucks along the perman- truth when he said (as quoted by a Corent way. A weiter in the current,rum- respondent in The Times on November ber of the Militar Wochenblatt discusses 7th) his rent anxiety had regard to the the specification of a gaslight tank possibilities of German industrial plants which is apparently to develop its own heing transformed at a moment's notice uxygen after the raapner of a submarine. for war purposes. Other observers | As for tactical.exercises there is appar from time to time expressed nervousness ently nothing to prevent German troops at the idea of some sudden and secret in from incurring with military larring vention which would revolutionize war.
as dummies to expresent tanks. The wireless ray to explode powder although the Pruer Treaty seems fairly magazines and short-circuit the magnetos explicit on this poist the same journal of aeroplanes As a source of perennini states that the wonder in the German and American already been equipped with satisfactory German troops have newspapers, but there is no reason to heens neka. [lieve that it exists outside the real of
sensational fiction.
The authors of the handbook declare) From the evidence available it is much more probable that that since the end of the war no militery The attention of German military experts austion has been the field of so much is nt present concentrated upon the co. research, and we may corclude that Ger- cperation of aeroplanes, tanks, and gasmical industry, has not lagged behind
many with her highly developed the especially gas.
in this repres It is understandable," they add, that a thick veil of secrecy
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It is pometimes argued that the park of infantry in future warfare will obscures these preparations, but when- negligible and that "future wars will are wer this is raised for a brief morp±! its elimination: since it will be immobile see with absolute clearness what we ized by gas attacks and hampered by may expect in the way of a future ch heavy anti-gas equipient, and that nical war. It is evidently to be a will make way for tanks and aeroplanes combination of air and gas fighting, sup Sghting with gas. Capt. Liddell-Hart, in ported by gas-carrying tank squadrons the Royal Engineers Journal of last which will range over wide areas, and March. put forward an ingenious argu. ment to this effect. The chief military the civil population will come in for scant consideration, though the question with masks is gravely discussed. of departing them or providing them!
Yet there is some confort in the fact that every new form of attack carries with it the germ of its own defence, and that
writers of Germany, however, do not ac cept this view, though they do recognize the overwhelming part to be played by was in the next war.
A NEW MANUAL,
The intensive study to which the new
in the late war, ILA we passed from warfare is being subjected is illustrated chlorine to phosgen and from phosgen by a timely publication. The Chemical mustard gas, the casualties fell from War" by Dr. R. Hanalian and F. Ber. initial 25 per cent. to less than 2 gendorf (Berlin Mister and Sons),per cept. The conception of a world complete manual of gas tneties ir all its down to destruction in a cloud of known forms, based on experience and death-dealing fumes on therefore br practice in the late war and since. Dr. rejected. Whut. German experts pro- Hanslian had excellent opportunity for mise in that tactics may change, but observation on all fronts in his coincity strategy remains the state, and that war as Sta Chemist and Gas Officer to the will still remain the problem of strik- XXII Reserve Army Corps (which wasing the decisive blow at the most effec- the Corps of Experts and Experimente spot, The strategists must there alists). The treatise; as thorough from fere reckon with gas as a vital weapon a military as from a chenient point of a into the hands of the nation mast view, is dedicated to Professor Walter highly developed in science and techno- Nerust, the chemical physicist. Home-logy. Consequently it will confer world time Rector of Berlin University The importance or even world-power only sni Germans owed the initiation of their the nation which shows supreme capa gas campaign to his visit to the General city in this, Geld." Meaning, of coure, Headquarters in the winter months of Germany,
The subsequent part played by Dr. Tappen and the two foremost indus. trial chemists. Dr. Haber and Dr. Duis burg (head of the Leverkusen Chemical Works, Cologne), led to its evorinous. development. It is a little odd that. Dr. Hanslian, though giving German sciener all credit for enterprise in this field, should strive so desperately to prove thing Germany did not begin it. For he anrits that when the German defeat on the Marne had brought the advance to a standstill and the war of position Ind been evolved, Germany's need required some fresh method to dislodge the enemy from his trenches, for which purpose gas seemed eminently suited."
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- Apart from this single instance, the book is written ir a spirit of complete detachment, Gas is regarded solely as weapon" of war. The authors doubt whether it is more cruel than artillery or that there is anything unchivalrous about its use In any case they are con vinced that it has come to stay. There lure, with complete, absence of sentiment, they go into cold-drawr details of the Intest lachryinators, irritants..poisons, and so forth, with a complete review of their application and effect. The bonk is methodically divided into attack, de- fenesinuke screen, and poison tactics, nzd post-war experience: la is amply illustrated, indexed, and furnished with an extensive bibliography."
In this manual gas is considered from ite "ability to ivcapacitate (by tear gas and chlorine) to disable (by mustard gas), or chill (by carbon-monoxide) the cremy's troops though it is expressly stated that numbers of casunities aboye are misleading and that great import- anes attaches to the psychological effect. From the beginning when the German Army arned vast stores cf chlorine. fonse in the wind upon, the Irönt - tween Bixschote and Langemarck (where, it is asserted 15,000 British troops wera poisoned, of whom 23 er eens, died). down to the discovery of Levisite (nick- named the dew of death " just too Jato for use in the war, the authors weigh the advantages and drawbacks of enoh, the proper tactics for their asc and the best method of meating them: In the early stages of the late war It is recalled the Germans wasted their op. portunities, and when on one mccasion they caused a panic among the Cana- dians and the route to Ypres lay open they had no reserves at hand to thrnet the advantage home.
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