Show SAS GAS ELEMENT IN WAR chemists are constantly studying now new fumes STARTED BY BRUTAL HUNS forces rest of 1 world to enter upon cold cod calculating merciless work of human destruction germany believes gas will bo be the biggest and most effective weapon to hatten hasten the end of tho the war on a table in a large room in which were several american officers until recen recently lly professors sors of chemistry and noted scientists connected with kroml nent american corporations were several shells jars of liquid small containers filled with powder and every imaginable thing connected with the of killing and safeguarding with nith and gas attacks for gas has become the big elti fitment nent of warfare and Is 13 no telling bo how gigantic it may be before the war cornea comes to tin an end to bit with etith these experts in killing and listen to their simple statements about the possibilities of destruction and nt at the same time to know ehm as men of finest sensibilities and h humane u impulses Is 13 a sort of grim lation of the terribleness of this war and the appalling transformation that Is overcoming at least a part of humanity of course everyone knows that germany Geri nany started the use of gas she elie has specialized in the use of gases of most deadly character she has perfected methods of spreading these ghastly fumes where soldiers cannot escape but must stand or sit and face death in gas masks but elie has forced the rubt of the world as a means of self protection to enter upon this cold calculating merciless work of human destruction without re revealing enlon any information not already the alun it may be stata stated d that germany realizes that if she ehe insists upon on her war with mith gas she ehe will be met with the tha spirit of a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an ea ee e and it Is not unlikely that it may lo lie 10 two for one huge gas olid dud one of the big projectiles on the desk in the room referred to was a gas dud a shell which did not explode it was one of rm BOO which were hurled simultaneously into the american lines the projectile Is 0 9 inches in diameter about 18 inches long weighs N about 75 pounds and haq bag a rather blunt nose it contains about two tino gallons of the andly phosgene ga gas it a rather dangerous thing to keep around as an office pet I 1 I 1 asked we took too the fuse out its quite harmless N was as the reply this flud dud Is hurled by the fers the germans have a m system stem of attaching a long string of these weapons so that they tire are fired with the touch of a button this chorus firing Is continued for perhaps 15 T and sends a veritable showe of the big projectiles into the selected spot find and releases a great quantity of the dt adly gas if the range Is right and the wind at all fao favorable rable the result 1 Is likely to be serious the fumes are shot out with terrific speed over a small area by the explosion of the shell there were some smaller cheles containing phosgene a gas used very extensively ten and others filled with a new gas as used by the germans this Is not poisonous but la Is calculated to pave the way nay for a genuine gas attack the little shells contain a quantity of the chemical which Is in pox powdered dered form and a surrounding layer of TNT which causes an explosion which suggests shrapnel and high explosives instead of gas the pox powder der Is m widely idely spread and Is intended to irritate the membranes of the throat and nose just enough to cause tho the person reached by it to sneeze when he begins to do this the supposition it that lie he wall remove his gai mask and on the theory that he be will do so go the apparently harmless powder shells are follo followed NNed by RL a blast of mustard gns agns or phosgene working on new gases suppose I 1 asked one of the distinguished experts a gas shell should explode in a city street on a berf perfectly atly still day how bow far would mould the fumes penetrate and how long would they take to cover a oven given area the expert opened a jar containing about a quatt of dark liquid when the air touched it a white smoke arose slowly Nily the expert blew this loftly into the room and it settled m with ith about the speed of a ring of smoke from a fragrant cigar about the way nay the gas would grael if the air were perfectly still ono shell probably would cover uri un area 50 feet in circumference and the gas would remain for a hali half hour or more shells gathered by the americans american show abbo that the germans are constantly working on new gases this coupled with the statements made mada by german prisoners indicate that the gernian german believes gas will be the biggest weapon ea pon to hasten th the a end of the A war ar no gas bombs hae yet been dropped I 1 p ed by either side to th war not long ago couie small rubber balloons were found after ft a german alit had passed pissed and they wre taught to have bavo contained a poison polson us gas th this 1 ila ds found to have been untrue th the e balloons were filled with ordinary go gas and alre used for or put pur poca |