SODDEN DEATH GAS.
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formulas for this or that curative compound. But why? Becausa they had the patience—a virtue in which their scientists excel- to plod along day after day and! week after week, aiming at a goal set clearly before them. The American scientist is impatient of inaction and delay, ignores set markes and directs his energies into unknown realms, frequently making discoveries of amazing importance.
"Thus it was with the gas. Germany launched the gas war- fare with all its horrors. The civilised world condemned the practice, but sometimes to fighti Are successfully you must use fire, fand so the Allies and the United States were compelled to a lopt the practice. It was a comparatively simple operation to reproduce the various terman gases, and after a little time it was no great fent to perfect a mask that male them innvenous to our men.
Then the American chemists i go busy, and in reproducing the German gases they turned out a products markedly superior that our own masks had to be changed and unproved to make it sale for our LAVAL
La usa the gas. The various us by the Ameri- BSEN
cana toward the end of the war were four times as deadly as those used by the Germans. By that I mean that a German gas mask gns useful against American gas less than one-fourth as long as an American naak was impervions to the German gas.
This may have been due in part to the German situation with reference to raw materiis. Here we have everything wa neel for making the gasES and the masks to neutralize their! efforts, while it is pretty well known that Germany was short of some very essential elements. However, that has nothing to do with this discovery of ours in the line of gas was perfected b cause some daring spirits took their lives in their hands and worked with certain combinations. of chemicals that it has been
generally regarded as sudden and certain leath to handle.
"And even after the gas 1.19 perfected we hala stiff problem .on our han ls. It was how to
handle the deadly staff and how. to get it safely to the place where it could be used. This hill had just been surmounted when the war ended, ani so Fritz escaped - a real taste of what America can do once she is started.
The Navy Department has just recently released the fact that the biggest and roost effective can- non in nse in the field were made for the United States Navy. They are 14-inch weapons of fifty calibres, and hurled a 1,500-| pound hell for an effective range of thirty miles. You know in thues of peace it takes more than a year to build one of theses bage guns. Itso happened that two of them were £uished But so long after declared, but for sume reason the Navy Department found itself unable to use them, ani al length consated to allow them to be shipped to France.
war iras
"But special locomotives and cars had to be bailt before they could be of use, and locomotive -builders and car makers out lid themselves in providing these movable emplacements, The guns were shipped from Philadel phis, and there is reason believe that the Germans knew about them and the approx- imate date of their shipmout, be- cause the ship on which they were sent to France was torpedo- ed when on her way back to this
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