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Show H J.IQUID FIRE USED IN WAR BBB At no higher a price per gallon than n the automoblllst hns to pay at prcs- BBBj ent for gasolcno, the United States BBBj will bo able, If tho need ever crises B to employ a liquid (Ire which for dead- nness nna an other requirements far B 1 4 surpasses anything with which tho B , world ha" yet been made acquainted. B ' Tho Inventor who has produced it Is BBSB u Philadelphia chemist, and at n re- BBBJ cent test of Its qualities at the Frank- BBBJ l'ord, I'enn., arsenal, It more than ful- BBBJ filled every claim mndo for It. Among BBBJ Its many "virtues" tho following may BBBJ ho enumerated as showing how effec- BBBJ , tive It Is, and ns explaining why, ac- BBBJ cording to the dispatches, Hrltlsh gov- BBBJ ernmcut oxivorts should think so well I of It that thoy havo offered half a million dollars for It: It can bo turned on tho enemy In h-: the form of liquid II ro that cannot be BBBJ,, extinguished nnd will contlnuo to burn ' BBBJi for days; It can bo employed as aj BBBJ I cloud of heavy, dense smoke that nf- BBBJ' fects the lungH and causes those who HBflflV lnhalo It to choke; or It can be com- BBBB blncd with chlorlno or cyanldo and BBBB result In n terrlhlo devastation to an BBBB )i enemy while remaining safo to the BBBJ' men handling It; It can ho mixed and BBBb- I combined with poison nnd kept In all H , tight containers ready for use; it can B 1 1 Tie bliot through hoso under air pros- B , ' Euro and can be controlled so as to H Ignlto after a given period: It will BBBB ! 'burn on tho water, and tanks havo BBBB been mndo to carry It on aircraft; It BBBB can bo dronped on warships with (lis- Bflflflfljf nstroiiH effect, for It melts metal!' BBSB ' ; Until tho present wnr broke out the BBBB use of such an awful agency against BBBB any enemy would have been unthlnk- B ' , -able; but during this terrlhlo conflict BBBSBj onc horror has followed so fast upon BBBBSj nnothcr that tho sensibilities of man BBBBBBBBBBBBBBMLir-MM - - i kind uppear to have becomo wholly jand hopelessly calloused. Amon; the combatants, at least, tho ' moro destructive nnd dreadful the 'tho means of holding back or slaying tho enoinj , tlw more readily It Is em-lloyod. em-lloyod. Ecn such an element as tills, forged or browed as It were In tho depths c,f tho Infernal pit, would bo today highly prized nnd quickly put to wotk as an accepted weapon of civilized war. DcBerct News. |