Show SOLDIERS DIERS WHO WH CHEW HEW CORDITE I One of the troubles of most European European Euro Euro- armies Is that those soldiers who can get hold of It Insist en using EUrO j that t terrible le explosive cordite g Jf it it were a sort of chewing gum Its popularity is due to the fact that when chewed In small quantities it has a stimulating and exhilarating effect like ike small doses dose of alc alcohol hol Its taste too Is sweet cordite being three-fifths three nitroglycerin an explosive which Is sugary to fo the taste When chewed In large quantities cordite becomes more powerful In Its Its effects bringing on a blissful state of ecstasy and sometimes making the victim of the habit see visions But Dut the real danger of at the habit lies In the tho fact that though nitroglycerIn will wll only explode when given a very hard blow or touched by an electric spark there Is always a 11 possibility that the grinding of exceptionally hard liard teeth might provide the necessary hard b blow Within the last few fow years at least three soldiers two soldiers two Germans and andone andone andone one one have American American have been blown to bits the use of cordite as a chewing gum being the suspected cause causo The habit TV was as not unknown In our own armies some some years ago till the tho military authorities took steps to stop it |