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Show deadly effect of . gas is described American Victim Tells of Experience in Trenches; Florida Chlorine Getting Huns. By F.OEERT S. DOMAN, Universal Service Staff Correspondent, PARIS. July G. There arc now about forty mustard gas casualties from the American front in American military hospitals Xos. 1 and 2 in Paris. One of the sufferers, despite his burns, insi.steJ on having a chat with a reporter re-porter who passed through the hospital. .-"That mustard gas is no joke," said he, twistinz over on his uninjured side. "It comes over in thin shells with I glass jars inside. A weak charge breaks the .shell and the glass and the liquid pours out. U'hen it mixes with the air it becomes gas. Sometimes it hangs over the spot where it has fallen for a month. "Many of our fellows who were burned got theirs while washing in shell holes filled with water with which the liquid j had mixed. "Every bit of a fellow's skin that is wet from water or perspira tion becomes affected.- My burns were light, but aomn of the fellows suffered agonies. "But say" the patient's eyes lighted up with an unholy joy "you ought to eee what our Florida chlorine gas is doing do-ing to them Heinies. Not h ing to it. It croaks them on the snot and goes through the best masks I hey have got. .Just lefore 1 got mine 1 went over the 1 top to help clean out a lleiie trench aid some dugout.1'. A nd what did we find in. the first dugout? "Well, we found four birds sitting around a table with a candle .'till burning burn-ing on it. All four had cashed in their chips. It sure was a ghastly sight. They had been playing cards and one of the corpses still clutched bis cards in his hand. "At first we couldn't believe they wcte dead, they looked .so lifelike. It looked to us as if they had all gone to sleep. One of our bunch yelled at them : 'iSay. you guys; how many cards are you drawing on' this deal?' But that was the only laugh we got that night." |