Show El lEAD EFFECTS 1 ARGEO bE T TO GA GAS fl l l DENY Experts Out to Disprove Disprove Report of Tuberculosis TuBerculosis Tu- Tu J Due to War l WASHINGTON Dec 11 AP AP- AP Std with a mass of statistics and entitle data the army chemical attire service has launched a to slay a ghost that came c with the army from France Wa nr liar has bas been declared against spectre that lingers in ine a Hinting e ot of of thousands of those those who e em that to whiff of gas over t there meday day day because of lasting injury y yb their tissues b bv by gas to lung K elwill ne fall tall victim to the the dread plague bite plague plague- figment merit of ot This s spectre is a a. pure General Amos n c y said Major rl lei S chief of ot the chemical ware war- war service Exhaustive scientific e during and since the ari General Fries maintains maintains and and casualty figures and e e of ot British French and d doctors to sustain hIss his n ss has tion-has has f failed ailed to disclose any s evil after effects 5 1 of gassing MIDDLE IDDLE GROUND Ca Caled men he declared either there was and ande Is Iso led l J d or lr got well o e Iddle ground no army of med DIed and crippled sufferers such ull t and bayonet and ands shell shelI l left sir wake a General Fries admitted the task 5 eo stud Bid and the regular and reserve of- of c rs of the chemical service have ee nd is a titanic job Ho lIe s did ot to deny t that at the he over- over helming b he ninn ps verdict of public opinion 1 I his settled judgment that sUs sj a the most moet humane and at the them aroe mg m time the most effective wea- wea or U t war yet et devised by man 11 Is a big j job b to convince people le nearly 01 all of or whom Ink otherwise General Fries said ut that is what we are trying to toc c HIT In Inthe the judgment of the chemical officers fear of the after effects of gas in the minds of veterans Is Js the most difficult obstacle to overcome In n changing the views of these millions mil mil- lions ions of people on the ques- ques of using gas in war Almost Almost Almost Al Al- most everybody General Fries pointed out has talked with veterans veter veter- ans who sincerely felt that they had iad been forever impaired physIcally physIcal physIcal- ly y by reason of a touch of gas STATISTICS GIVEN on n the possibility that gassing In Induces Induces induces In- In duces subsequent tuberculosis the war var casualty reports of the surgeon general are illuminating They show th th-t th t three seventy-three cases of ot tuberculosis occurred in 1918 among the he men In the army who had hadeen been een gassed the rate per 1000 being The annual rate for troops in Europe that year other than the gassed men was and In the following year It would seem apparent the surgeon general commented that tuberculosis did not occur any more frequently among the soldiers who had been gassed than among those who had not been gassed Deaths from gas are at least lower ower than one to ten compared with other war weapons permanent disabilities are practically n negligible and after atter effects are of no moment General Jeneral Fries contended adding that hat compared to older methods gas warfare must be commended Instead in instead instead In- In stead of ot being condemned |