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Show NEWEST GAS KILLS MEN WITH LAUGHTER Now York, Juno 7. A now gas, terrible in its effects, has been Invented In-vented by tho Germans, according to Enos Curtln, a chemist, who returned today on tho American liner St. Louis aftor service with an ambu-lame ambu-lame corps in Lorraine. This gas, he says Is fatal In nearly every case, its victims dying flapping their arms like the wings of a decapitated fowl and with hystorlcal laughter on their lips. "There aro three kinds of gas over there," said Curtin; "a chlorin gas, a bromide gas and another gas that we haven't succeeded in Identifying yet, but which the men call 'laughing gas.' We have remedies for tho flrst two, but tho only antidote for the (ZZ third 80ems to bo pure oxygen, which c Is difficult to get and which even then Is not effective in all cases. "When the laughing gas Is Inhaled, Inhal-ed, tho victim falls to the ground and his body becomes rigid oxcept from his elbows to his finger tips. You an Imagine what it Is to see rows ot them lying, flapping their arms like chickens and dying with nn insane laugh on their lips." |