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Show THE PAYSONIAN, PAYSON. UTAH.. JUNE 17, 1921. T ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Poisonous Gas from Airplanes Will Decide Next Big War Time is Money kxxckxxxxoxoxxxoooxxxxxoockxoox JSt man i'W i In the battle for commercial supremacy victory lies with the man who makes the best use of his resources. American fighting lino one in every three of the American fighting men who went to hospital. Does any ono think that the vision of whole cities thrown into helpless agony by invisible airships dripping Or that it poison is too fantastic! would be impossible to subdue such fortresses as Corregidor or the green terraced ramparts that guard the Nar-o- f NevertheJows of New YTork bnvf less that is the cool and carefully weighed opinion of General Fries and of his aids in the cremicnl warfare service. They approach these anmzing conclusions which knowledge of secrets that are not accessible to the rest of us, grim and dreadful myster- ies that have been worked out in the great chemical warfare service laborn- tories at Edgewood, Md., and in the many private laboratories whose sci- once is given to the United States government. If the Philippines are ever attach-fleet- s ed by any enemy it will bo a gee attack, General Fries believes, and the measure of his opinoin is indicat- ed in the following interesting mem- ornndum he sent a few' days ago to l Leonard Wood, who is now on his way to our far eastern Hero it is:, possessions. by New York Herald.) known to man and aa yet only five GcJ ce,lt of this vast number' have of steel smashed been used for experimentation. Yet . power on hind and sea. with the few discoveries made in the of death will paralyze and de-- j pve ppj. ccnt anj employed in the (Copyrighted Hurricanes Ir stroy the lunging battalions of a great war the casualties were terrific, The surgeon-genera- l of the United future assault against cilivization. The last war ended with diapason States army reports that almost one from! nian out of every three that entered closing full, great guns roaring the North Sea to the Alps, the ears- the hospitals of the American expeas a force ditionarv infernal! battle casualty the warriors dinned by In- The next war will close! "ms suffering from enemy gas. tumult. marines and attached the eluding in the silence of death broken only' naval personnel poison gas caused by the moaning and the screams of 72,050 castualties, of which 1, 271 the blinded and the burned. fatal. That is what the dew Wars of the' past have been and engineers,! of death did to American fighting flicts of artillerymen What it did to the French and tools not! niPn- with duels clumsy clumsy British can be imag ned without used1!" verv different from the tools statistics. Yet from 1915, when the Germans first directed by! drifted a poison cloud across dreadful struggles, ably uiiddle-ageand elderly persons in the field of Ypres until they surrend-- ' spectacles sitting in laboratories anti ered more than three years later, loosng upon fields of battle, battle they developed only three per cent Had it been fifty per and great helpless cities mins- - efficiency. mas of death that not only destroy cent, so early in the struggle, or the body but wreck the mind through even later, history might have had fear, sheer terror of the mysterious,1 another tale to tell. j Had they got up to fifty per the unknown. Amos said Brigadier-Genert- l Compounders of volatile, K .al A. chief of chemical warfare,' dew as Fries, fall will sons, poisons that dew service, U. S. A., wo would have had a from the clouds, literally left. of death; poisons that wiil be drifted(to come home those of-u- s across great spaces like fever murk from n swamp; poisons that will be discharged on shells from pneumatic Japs can take Iilippine Islands guns, furtively, silently, will contend At Ypres in 1915 when the Kaisers with gas Let us assumo Japan has These hosts added the new terror to war decided to make war upon the United for the mastery of the world. will bo chemists wars, if wars must fare Her first objective is the they had the world in their States. come again, and the simple truth is hands had They lie to the they followed up the shock- Philippine Islands. that the mind of man is not yet ing surprise their poison waves sent south of Japan and more or less paraable to picture the horrors that will through the British and the Canad- llel to the Asiatic coast, as is Japan be released. American farther north. ians but they did not follow it up. herself One is reminded of Victor Hugoa troops and fortifications are concenEvils of Forecast Dreadful of French at trated on tho island of Corregidor, defeat By New War Destroyers. explanation This Waterloo the sunken road of Ohain, at the mouth of Manila Bay. Great cities, an ocean apart from Napoleons strange indecision, Grou- is the usual tropical island, with an their countrys enemy and tranquil chy s blunder, Hugo put it in a extreme length of seven miles and an extreme width of one mile, tho total God. in fancied security, far out of the word: Nor did the Germans advance their area being less than three square longest range gun, will stir from t It is rather a typical sleep in the night to the agony of primary advantage with the energy! miles. on the unseen as from had marked them in all other montory west, gradually their people, poison the of military nehievenment andj ing off to almost sea lcven on the ships, circling above them in The German chemical shell, east. It has the usual tropical growth, dark, dews of death fall to blind and purpose. Fortresses, man- programme was 25 per fcent of their' with cleared places for barracks, burn and paralyze. the fleers quarters and gun emplacements ammunition. ned by the most powerful ordnance During man has been able to perfect, will entire time that the American troopsj Japan, having decided on war, lie helpless under this gentle, frightfcl were in action it is doubtful that, will seize a small bay with 100 miles Her air force will Armies with banners will be the chemical shell firing ever exceeded! of Corregidor. rain. there by way of Formosa and land levelled to the dust, no longer armies, 15 per cent. They could not manufac-jflShe In thein the little harbor picked out. tore chemicals fast enough. but masses of sightless, the will carry in her fleet 100 tons of ' nman beings, incapable of motion battle of the battle the mustard gas. This gas and the moth longest and hardest-fough- t incapable of thought In all the thousands of years tha American troops participated in, the ods of making it were thoroughly small' worked out by the uifferent allies in men have schemed to slay other men Germans used a relatively Their available or the love of amount of gas. sup- the world war Hence Japans knowlfor greed, ambition women nothing even remotely io ply had been disputed in other edge of the gas and of manufacturing terrible has come into warfare as the sectors and little was left to em- - it are complete A force of fifty planes, each But discovery and coldly scientific appli- play against the Americans. cation of poison gases as a weapon. poor efficiency and a dwindling; rving one ton of mustard gas in a The possibilities are absolutely il supply it must not be forgotten that simple tank, will leave at night for A half-houlater they limitable. There aTe 200,000 ch cm ions German poison gas struck out of tho Corregidor. 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Fifty tons of mustard gas, even if half of it is wasted on the surround ing waters, will form n deadly con cent ration that cannot be gotten rid of under five to ten days. Men can not live anywhere on the island with out wearing masks and oil clothing which is gas proof. Within forty-eigh- t hours tho plac(. will bo praetically untenable for Animals and all human anybody. beings will begin to grow siek from injury to tho lungs or from very bad Forty-eigh- t burns. hours alone will suffiee for a reduction of tho island without firing a shot. Thus will pass the Philippine Islands into the hands of the Japanese.. The next step will bo just to hold tho Philippine Islands and wait for results. They might possibly at tempt to apply tho same methods of attack against the Hawaiian Islands. It is perfectly cerjnin that the attach would be just as successful ngninst the Hawaiian Islands ns gainst the Pilippines, unless the Americans have a superior air force that can keep the invaders away. The Caroline, and Marshall Islands including the Island of Yap, over which the Japanese are to have a mandate, would afford numerous small Juirbors which would ho ideal landing planes for aeroplanes. In addition to an air fr rce. the mericans must have a sufficient fleet wiMiin strieking distance of the TTn waiinn Islands to prevent .ihe Japanese from seizing one of those is lands as an air base. If not, the Tnpanese can seize a small island with a landing place for their airplanes, and with n fleet of aircraft they could force the evacuation of the American forts in Hawaii by sprinkl-;nt- r gas. just ns in the ease of Cor ngidor. Know for a fact what a joyus jimmy pipe can and will do for your peace and content! Just check up the men in all walks of life you meet daily who certainly get top sport out of their pipes all aglow with fragrant, delightful, friendly Prince You s when its packed Paste that in your hat! This is merely an outline of Ihe Ibnv incomparably method of attack. ntoi-simple is this seizing of Cor regidor when compnrnd with its seiz1t i s And ure by nnv other means. is no dream. ono who knows Any "itsfnrd gas knows that if about ten ions per square mile bp sprinkled over evi-- t cannot inhabitants an area 'here until after three days under Gcnernllv the Mi,, best of conditions. time will lie from five to ten days in the tropics. The question of defence "ainst such nn attack i prm-t- i without a superior ppllv impossible nir force. 'From this point of view it is not "ci how America can hold the Til iojiine Islands. This is for the reason ha if is not soon how the United, 'J'ates can maintain in those island-an nir force greater than Japan could The sit eohahlv bring against it. potion at Hawaii differs some what, 1 nt if we are to hold the Hawaiian Islands we must eombine a large navy with an air force which wil1 J o sufficient to keep Japan from seizn anv of tho islands as an air ' Copyright 1921 by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Winston-Sale- N.C. Nme Ale the national joy smoke ce ap, General Dries Describes Possibility as a Very Beal Danger Tn preparing this extraordinarily General Fries frank memorandum. ns got right down to brass tacks. no he savs, believeing Ihnt good S 13 would be served by minimizing i cry real danger, danger would upplv, to any part of the United State! w loiterer in wartime if the navy was not big enough and the air force not numerous enough to keep nn enemy t'tom establishing a base for ins raids. enormous distances by all calibres of guns, and with gas mining from airfrom airplane planes or burbling bombs, the battlefields of tho future will never bo free from gnu. This is no exaggeration. Wo have the raw materials for these gases. poison Wo have tlio personnel to manufacture We have the factories. Mon them. than that, we have the men in tho army and tho navy and the air ser vice thnt will distribute them, ami the military man who fails in tho future to consider gns in every problem he studies is failing to consider tho most powerful weapon of war, both for offence and defence, There is still talk in places that chemical warfare may be abolished by It cant bo douo . if agreement. you can abolish chemical warfare by agreement you cun aboLsh all war It may be argued by agreement. that we have agreements that have been kept, such as not to use poison Such bullets or not to poison wells. agreements have been kept for one Tho reason and one reason only. methods are inefficient. Poisoning of wells is a species of guerrilla wur-farman coiupsirublo wilh stubbing in the back and gets only an ocBut chemical warcasional casualty. fare, getting its casualties, by the tens and hundreds of thousands, is too powerful a force for any military commander to overlook cither for offence or defence, and too powerful for any nation to dare trust that no other nation will use it in war. proves that no powerful method of making war has ever been abend-ouen il n 'more powerful method And why shouldnt was devised? we us, poison gas? It is just as sportsmanlike to fight with gas ns it is to fight wilh rifles or swords. Gas, being so universally ndnp'able, ri quires the highest intelligence and The America a people should know the keenest minds to use it successWe Americans believe wo that the.-- e posribi !i u s exist, that the fully. have the mind, the skill and tho in- not is a of military peril nightmare use it just n little beter to . veil U'otniity fold. elide fact, win. but enough proved in the past war and, than any one else. A recent writer in a militanv infii il el - mere W now. potent have adopted policy of the utmost) magazine stated that gns would piob-rankness because we believe in tho bly not be used in our bariage ireriean hii-- 'h- ari attack, because ot the dif-pljudge eat of i..e YVe have our secrets, but we! Acuity it might cause our own troops. in f rving to keep too! Hn foigot. the enemy, a dangerous ,p. o' It'di 'Omnrv for any military man. much! I"1M,, secret. Too many mn't-uthe verv purpose' battles have been lost and nations secrecy often been '"'T1 R"ny because cm- We believe i of secrecy. being f a ok to ouisclve-- , to our comrades manders of armies forgot to figure in the prim- - and nfixy. to congress J ,IU "bat ,lu! enemy might do. Consider whole. Wc!lmn ol,r barrage behind which our and (O the people ns believe in publicity, because we don t f r,lt's !'r' marching to battle with This M" how the army and navy, or any! the wind blowing toward us. of the other institutions of our ro-- l is the most dangerous condition for ur own use of gas. But. what of politic, can be properly supported un This is exactly the open, (he enemy. h's hp priority of the people have Under such ondei xf andi rig of what ing he is looking for. correct those institutions "re n"d how they conditions he will deluge our nil wincing soldiers with gns from the verv 1,'ud I be mail finned. moment they start until they cross fattiefieHn of the Future his lines. If we do not deluge kin; in Never to Be Free From Oa our barrage, we give him the use of he most powerful weapon of war. Poisonous gases in the pas w af v ;thout any dnngcP to himself. If mixed 27.5 per cent of all American 1h1 winfl be toward the en- blowing Gniilt.es. killed and ended eruv we certainly deluge him, sidering only the wounded admitted because our own gas can net come to hospitals, oyer 51 per con were back to us, and the enemy for that gns alone, and vet the use of gas, very reason will deluge our advancing even nt th'1 end of th" world war, beeenso he knows we will be infantry to what was a chibls game oow'-nredeuging him. YVifh gas it will be in ihe fotu-o- , This simply means that gns will drifting from clouds let loose on the battle line, with gas being thrown to (Continued on Tago 7.) Take Now Yroik itself, City, said the general, New Y'ork tile For tho sake of argumagnificent. ment, let us assume that the United States navy, allowed to deteriorate, had suffered defeat or that the Atlantic fleet had been outmanoeuvred Let us assume by a cunning foe. that the same neglect of military aviation continues . What then? The answer is ns eerlnin ns that, night follows day. Airplanes are being developed so thnt even now it. would be possible for great squadrons to leap the Atlantic and sprinklo our cities with burning poison. If an enemy nation could seize and hold s base in the Caribbean wo would be wide open to the most frightful bombardment mind of man even conceived not a deluge of shot and shell but a rain of something infinitely more dreadful. We know that ten tons cf mustard gns will desolate a square mile and make life impossible in that square mile. Suppose a fleet of 100 poison sprinklers swooned over New Y'ork in the night, haing defrntid or evad e,l the American flying fleet. Death, desolation and defeat would most In tlm millions of eeitainly result. the great city hundreds of thousands would be blinded, burned horIt ribly, driven insane from terror. is not n picture one cares .to contemplate even in speculation, but I tell von that he scientific use of ga in warfare is npronching this extreme of horror. o His-(oi- v d 13 t clur-soua- d ' , 'i-- , - |