Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-08-04 | Page 35 | Kaiser Rewards Poison Gas Inventor; Makes Him Count for "Notable Work"

KAISER REWARDS POISON GAS INVENTOR MAKES HIM COUNT FOR NOTABLE WORK t aa a- a a Fi L 4 4 S. S 4 s N t bk 7 r T f y 5 1 S 'S Se c r 1 e r it 1 5 S t I f t A id 5 v 5 t f Ii I f I n q t a w I m m a e li lie 41 M.- M. s I I in U Ic c I Professor horseman at right man who created Germans' Germans poison gas I Below is Professor Haber jy in charge of its ftc reduction Two men figure prominently In the tha poison polson gas warfare started b by the tho Carmans Germans Car Ger I mans and antI now being belnE shoved down th their lr throats by the American an and other othor al allied allied at- at lied troops These two men are aro Professor and Professor Haber is professor sor of ot chemistry at the thc University of Berlin charge of urging the kaisers kaiser's kalser's kaisers kaiser's kai kal- sers ser's advisors leors to adopt thu tho use of oC poisonous gas as has been laid at door and the tho charge seems justified Even before the war was a Pan- Pan German and Anglo After the use of ot tho the gas had been bean started ho was made a a. count by the thc kaiser for his not no t i-b i blo e services Habor is a professor proCessor of ot the tho Kaiser Wilhelm Physical Chemical Institute of or Berlin In 1 before the war began he and his assistants are known to h have ve been boen working secretly with sith ln 1 tensely poisonous arsenic gases andI and j I I liquids ida He lie and this group of ot helpers were ero I u given sl the tho carrying out of the gas op op- op- op They made all the scientific arrangements in tho the field decided what gas to lo Iso lillO and anel the tho quantity to employ wind directions etc eth Many problems were vero entailed In the question of ot what gas raB to use It must be highly poisonous and must be comparatively com com- cheap that It could be used in Immense Quantities e. e It had to be compressible for Cor transportation must be heavier than thab air that It might keep close to the ground after being liberated liberated liber liber- and arid b by preference It should bo be unstable that is IE Is decompose easily and enter Into nonpoisonous combinations with materials other than man man that it should come across In Its Ita passage e I through air Chlorine has been most frequently 1 1 chosen and used Steel cylinders have e I been used for transportation tho the gas being stored In them thorn in iii liquid form C COn On opening such cylinders the liquid bolls and gives Ives off orf the gas again as I