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Show "QUOTES" COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS BY NATIONAL CHARACTERS USE OF GAS IN WAR By CAPTAIN G. J. FISHER Chemical Warfare Service. THE next war is not much more likely to be fought on a chemical basis than the last. We don't expect the number of deaths from chemicals to be materially mate-rially greater than in the last war. The military effort required to fly chemicals against cities is such that It Is doubtful whether military commanders would feel justified in directing men and materials to that purpose. The progress made in developing gases since the World war has not been as great as the general public has been led to fear. Those who point out that one ton of mustard gas is capable of killing 30,000,000 people run dead up against the fact that in the World war a ton of this gas actually killed but three persons. |