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Show BRITISH OFFICERS AID INSTRUCTION . IN GAS DEFENSE Because of the Instruction of gas officers who have been at the various camps for the last six months, the troops which are going forward to France are well posted on methods of combating gas, attacks says a statement authorized by the War Department. A group of British. gas officers has .been In this country since last summer. One of these men has been at each of tho training camps, advising and assisting the division di-vision gas officer. All of the men going overseas are supplied with gas helmets. Under the division gas officers and their assistants the men are drilled In the use of masks, taught how to detect the presence of gaa and given' actual actu-al experience with different sorts of gases. Mimic gas shells and cloud attacks used often at night in connection con-nection with high explosives, holp to make the training realistic. The United States has been able to build on the experience of the British and French to whom gas attacks at-tacks were unknown when they entered en-tered the war. No American troops have been sent to the front without practical experience In, defending themselves against gas. The training of Instructors In gas defense Includes a course of about one mouth. Most of the gas officers offic-ers are commissioned first lieutenants. lieuten-ants. 4 |
