Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-10-23 | Page 4 | Gas Warfare Held Humane

GAS oils WARFARE HELD HUMANE NEW YORK Oct 23 UP UP- UP Poison gas is the most humane instrument In Instrument instrument in- in strument of ot modern warfare about despite gross exaggerations its devastating effects two army officers told th the academy of medicine medicine med med- last night Chemical warfare also was pointed point point- ed to as a peace factor because it provides a powerful defense weapon In peace time emergencies without serious expenditures Colonel Adelno Gibson of the chemical warfare service in his address address address ad ad- dress to physicians said that compared with other weapons of warfare gas was something of which to boast for it does not mutilate mutilate mutilate mu mu- the body seldom causes extreme extreme extreme ex ex- ex- ex pain and results in death only In a small proportion of casualties The time will come he said when a civilized nation will be considered considered considered con con- barbarous If it its army uses rifles machine guns and explosives against the army of a eo less civilized nation that could be controlled with gas Why kill If it the total rout of ot the opposing force can be assured by the use of harmless measures measures To kill even In warfare without necessity necessity sity is murder Colonel Gibsons Gibson's defense of the use of poison gas came at the end of a long recital of ot the effectiveness effective effective- ness of many new varieties of chemicals chem chem- as killing agents Mustard gas was cited as an example of powerful powerful pow pow- erful poison poLson gases One ton of this type he said could kill men Majo Samuel A. A White of ot the army medical corps supported Gibson's Gibsons Gibsons Gibson's Gibsons Gibson's Gib Gib- sons son's view adding that he hoped the next war would be fought with chemicals because I know that my sons son's and your sons son's chance of surviving and of surviving without without without with with- out mutilation or lasting disability would be increased many fold if the war war- were fought with chem chem- Only 2 per cent of the gas gas casualties casualties casualties cas cas- In the World War died it was pointed out whereas 24 per percent percent percent cent of battle casualties succumbed i