Show Zero Hour in Pacific War Game Nears I As Blue Forces on Way to Hawaiian Islands Approach Ocean Deadline Use of Chemical Agents in Capture of Objective Not Considered By Dy CAPTAIN C C. C M. M lf AUSTIN AUSTIN Assistant Chief of Staff Staf U. U S. S N. N ABOARD U. U S. S S. S CALIFORNIA Somewhere at Feb Fob 5 In 5 In le less than a day the zero hour will wi be 1 upon us I The terms of or our nul naval military exercises ex ex- set the two forces down well veli wel apart in the beginning and also draw a deadline between them that may not be crossed until the zero hour Admiral Richard Leighs Leigh's blue forces ships of ot the battle batte force plus plu army and marines marine under Major G General Gen n. n eral oral Craig put to sea from the ports of southern California February 1 1 Major General Briant Brant Wells Wels com corn commanding manding the black army and anti navy defending defending de dc de- de fending lending the Hawaiian Islands against our attack tack is informed fully of the speed of our ships and knows to the hour when we tc can reach the deadline 1778 miles mies from our starting strUng point cross it i. i and traversing tra the intervening intervene ing log miles mies deliver delver the first blow of oC our campaign Acts Acs of hostility tire in n order tomorrow but the phy physical l. l cal cat limitations of or the two forces still sti serve to keep them apart LOSSES NECESSARY Some losses must be met me by any force seeking to take the Hawaiian Islands Our present movement is Js only un an n exercise a game came Suppose It I were that greatest of all al games grim grimand grimand grimand and barbarous war What would be bo done that we the blue players do not plan to undertake I venture to say that one agency of or war examined thoroughly before the attacking troops were ordered ashore would be chemical warfare I do not want to b be understood as advocating the use of chemical agents agent nor of or suggesting that our nation naton or any y other would employ them In Iii the situation that is simulated in this ex cx- However It Jt would be futile to deny that under the real or seeming law of necessity chemical agents will willbe wl be employed in future wars as in past ones Contrary to general belief belef chemical warfare has not been outlawed by treaty The only nations to obligate themselves voluntarily not to use toxic bode gases ASeS and liquids asphyxiating lg and poisonous arc are five five Central American Amer Amer- ican icon republics n none nc of ot whom po possess a chemical Industry to supply their needs in wartime ONLY OLY ONE EFFECTIVE Other nations have haie signed convent lions tons protocols and treaties outlawing chemical warfare as we ite understand it i but with wih the exception of ot a treaty forced on OIl Germany none have be be- come effective because of or the failure of or all al to ratify Given the situation in wartime that confronts confront blue in this exercise consider consider con con- sider the heavy casualties we have lor foreseen assume the attacking force torce believes Itself Itel offered a chance of vicor victory without the slaughter of or Us Its Is own men and what is i your answer The answer of ot course is that thal it i is I IThe Impossible to be motivated by conditions condi condl- tons which do not exist exist and nd w we put aside the subject with wih the h hope P that it may never arise arse in hI 11 earnest |