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Show Next Great War to Be Fought With Aid of Gas and a short time later to heaps of dead. ( But while all this Is reported to-be to-be going on In Germany, that na-. tlon's traditional enemy la by noj means Idle on the subject of poIsont gases. Able to work with more; freedom than Its conquered nelgh- bor, France has been going in for as much experimentation and n; much manufacture of gases as has Germany. Two noted French chemists, Leonce Bert and llenrl Dorler, are said to have discovered gas more) deadly than anything yet conceived by man, and against which a gag mask would be useless. The most deadly , and the most! cruel feature of this new gas la Its corroding and blistering effect) upon any part of the body. a! single drop placed on a dog's back killed the animal within a few hours, during which It suffered ex cruclatlng agony. Most Cruel Form of Death Will Be the Weapon. Berne, Switzerland. In this, the cnpltal of the Swiss confederation and the headquarters of international interna-tional Intrigue, the talk Is mainly of the next great war. This war will be the most inhuman in-human of all wars, for it will not be waged primarily with guns or tanks "or cannon or bayonets. Poison Poi-son gas, the most cruel form of death ever inflicted on a1 mass of people, will be the weapon ; airplanes air-planes will be the carriers -and non-combatants, men, women and children, the victims. The population popula-tion of cities will be wiped out exactly ex-actly as vermin destroying apparatus apparat-us clears bugs from a New York apartment building. The plotters and the secret ob- gas Is the most death-dealing, the most cruel. Germany, by so doing, do-ing, is declared to be deliberately breaking the terms Imposed by her conquerors at the treaty of Ver-sallies. Ver-sallies. A former secret service agent In the employ, of pre-IIitler Germany asserts that In that country poison gas Is being manufactured as the only weapon which, in conjunction with fast airplanes, can bring victory vic-tory over the man-power, the armaments arma-ments and the war equipments of her potential enemy. War on Noncombatanto. The German plan of campaign would be brutally direct. Hundreds of airplanes laden with gas bombs would sweep westward. The cities of France-would be bombarded. The population would change in a few moments from people nt work or at play to writhing, agonized masses servers of Berne locate this war on the territories of the two hereditary hered-itary enemies of ..world history-France history-France and Germany. - Victor World Menace. . v The location will depend on which one gets the jump on the other for it will be "a short and Tearful" war. Perhaps massacre would be. a better bet-ter word. And after it Is over, say the plotters and observers. -the mad dog who has become top dog -almost over night' will go berserk and seek to enforce his will, by poison gas; on the rest of the world. Here . in Berne one can gather much information.-rejiable and un-, reliable. . ... - ".v Secret Investigation, by men-"and women whose reports in the past have been proved most reliable by the countries they serve show that both France and Germany are at present In a race, the ultimate winner win-ner of which will be the nation whldi has gathered together most gas and most airships, and whose ', ' , I |
