Show r DEADLY EAD LY DEW Of DEATH NEWEST yf t WA fill Chemical mical Warfare Service PI Develops t r Dea V Vapor ap r r VH t-VH By By- ByL L L L. A. A United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON W Nov The Th 6 The D Dew w of oft t Death eathl The next war will be more horrible hor hor- than the last world catas catas- This prediction frequently heard from not only army and na navy y experts but ut from Crom the average citizen s seems ms certain of ot fulfillment unless some summary summary summary sum sum- mary action Is taken by the forthcomIng forthcoming ing Washington conference to prohibit or the use of ot these latest war devices One of ot the three main subjects to be betaken taken liken up at th the conference under conference under the broad question of limitation of armament armament armament arma arma- ment Is Rules for control of new agencies of warfare The chemical warfare service of ot the American army Is to possess today the deadliest deadliest dead dead- lt liest st poisonous gas in the world This ls called s a gas developed a luring during the latter part of ot the war by Lee Lewis a professor of chemistry of ot Northwestern university but never used in the last warA war A A quantity of ot this gas equivalent to three drops reaching a mans man's body in IR liquid uld form torm will kill Is aim sim similar lIar ilar to mustard gas a a. burning gas which caused the major portion of the gas gas casualties during the war Gas was never used from airplanes during the war but It is understood that the chemical warfare service is prepared prepared-in in a future war to let down from fleets of ot aircraft a a. veritable rain powerful gases It RELEASED FROM Pl PLANES NES These gases would be released d from tanks carried by airplanes and would drift dritt to earth in liquid form form form- formas as a light rain or dew The mustard g gas s evaporates orates more sk sloWly than does the Lew J ite thus retaining Its power for InI InJury Injury In- In I Jury by burning longer but Lev Le Is tl the e deadlier of th the two i A A A. A picture can an anth th thus us be gained of airplanes airplanes air air- planes In a future war letting down this dew of ot death on armies in the field and on cities In back of the firing line Une should this bo be resorted to The che chemical warfare service knows that clothing soaked with heavy Hn- Hn I seed eed oil can be made to protect the thew w wearer from this gas but It Is also equally true that men cannot stand tho wearing of such clothing for l long ng Complete protection from poisonous gas seems impossible Pointing out the importance of the use use of poisonous gas In war Brigadier General Amos Fries of the chemical warfare service said The use of gas makes aviation ten times tunes as power powerful ul as It would or ordinarily ordinarily ordin ordin- ln- ln arlly be and doubles the value of ot every other branch of warfare The t-The The importance of ot gas Is 15 evidenced by the fact that 27 per cent of ot the American casualties during durin th the war II was caused by this this' pew new agency of ot wart war war- fare re t Then too tt the casualties casualties' caused Mused I by all the weapons of ot Infantry the Infantry the bayonet the rifle rUle the hand grenade the machine gun were gun were only slightly more than the gas casualties II The use of gas Is la particularly valuable valuable able as a a. means of defense Imagine an enemy fleet bringing up the army of the hostile country to attack the United United States Our airplanes would go out and bomb the enemy ships with explosives ex- ex pros plosives pi ives and gas INVASION IMPROBABLE If If It after alter this the enemy forces did succeed In getting up to or on the American shore a rain of ot poisonous gases could be let down on them in such Buch magnitude that they could go no farther tarther So I believe such use of ot gas would make It impossible for an at attacking attacking attacking at- at tacking army to get a foothold on the American soil j Some other nations probably would 1 be bet glad glad to know that we h had d pledged i ourselves not to use use poisonous gasI gas gas gis I I I 1 do not believe this thin government should enter Into any agreement not notto notto notto to use gas while white there these Is a possibility I of this country being placed at the I mercy of an outlaw outlaw- nation breaking th this this- pled pledge as Germany did when she I started the use of ot gas In the World w t II The The destructiveness of ot the airplane airPlane has hash already been gr greatly atly Increased Ince e the World war Only a a. few da days s sago ago the largest aerial bomb In the world was successfully tested by the ordnance department and the and the air serI service ser- ser vice I e of the army at the ordnance proving provIng ing ground at Aberdeen Md It was thirteen and a half haIt feet long two feet In diameter weighed pounds anc and contained 2000 pounds pounds' of T T. N N. T. T Dropped from an airplane at a height between of-between of ot between and feet at Aberdeen Aberdeen Aberdeen Aber Aber- deen this hu huge bomb tore toro a great hole In ln the ground more than sixty feet In diameter in-diameter diameter and about twenty feet deep Mep It It was vas with a a. bomb half halt this size that Brigadier General William Mitchell assistant as- as chief of the air service and his army fliers fIlers sunk Bunk the former German battleship during the b bombing tests with the German ex-German 1 warships off oft the Virginia capes a few months agot ago t |