Show VAR TERRORS I ABSURD ClAU Secy Wilbur Wllbur Declares Nations Won t Be Bei Wiped Put WASHINGTON IV Feb 2 Pre Predictions Pre Predictions dictions that thal the much dl d n next war ar will alIt bo be made modo mor more terrible than hart any Y heretofore through the tho progress of f clene In developing poisons wire sure dee dec dec dared In 11 a statement Sunday by Secretary Wilbur Wllbur to be bo rid leu- leu Ilou 1 I lou lous I I Production and transportation of poison gas In sufficient quan Quan- Quantities quantities titles to wipe aipo OU ou the entire lOt of a city Is Ii impossible he leI and feu feir that such terro terrors a III be practiced should bo be rele- rele relegated gated gated aled to the lie field of o bedtIme Stories of the tho man lI an who alit III get sou It if aou don t I watch 1 atch out I I that list scientific methods of is wholesale destruction had be n P perfected since HIL last war to such a point that Wide ole civIlian populations could be bo annihIlated b the lie use of oC gases germs g-erms rod 11 high explosives he ho u n noL hot tru true and not nol Justified by past history or present conditions On the tho contrary the that liSt Iho tho lie next heat war silil be III like hike most of the wais In his his- histon his lory tOt ton sporadic and local and In- In In Involving S ol oit ing comparatively few faw people sod nd will III bo lie relatively quickly Os OHI C t Secretary Wilbur said that hat tho scho ho predict vast tast ast expansion of th the use of g gis s and germs in future sat sat-a that both boUt sides could use such weapons and that toe I nations using disease germs II a as a i means of or offense cannot confine the tIo effects of to one sIde I of the lie fighting line hue Sonic Some kind I of would have to be em- em employed em employed by liy the germ spreaders lie he pointed out could also be betaken betaken betaken taken advantage of ot by those thoe at- at attacking at attacking tacking s n There Is h no thAt thit modern Is a serious and fright fright- frightful I ful rul thing as we have lIae been so late late- latch lateIs lately ly Is and that unprepared unprepared- unprepared ness possibilities ness for tor such a 0 war tsar and anI its po I is excusable able In an tin tinna eta eta- na nation lion tion Ion that ha has the thA th means for pro pre preparing pro na-I na paring to old avoid the tho hideous buries poasi oss- oss of modern warfare airfare he said Certainly the lie world orld was sias was aria ter- ter ter terrible saidI I enough to stagger mankind by the tho possibilities of orld war sian am an analysis of or that thal tsar r and the me na of or offense and defense th thin then n ed indicates cel the absurdity of assuming I that that hal ran men would either have the Ili or the means to destroy whole I nations i bile It would be for a nation to go to sleep In I of all of the potentialities of mod mod- modern modern ern erit a si at rare fare It Is cel rong is rong to pu publish and proclaim rongI these utra predictions as aa to the tho I possible effects of future war ar e 0 may not be able lo to prevent alii all little wars ars we cannot prevent present pre ent all local bances but the nations ot of the tho 1 world orld should be Sc able to forestall and prevent present another orld war tsar Tho The chances chanes are that the jUdgment of mankind will oppose any air war r which has for tor Its pur- pur purI pur I pose the or an annihilation of nations or peoples S IHL nil nil- PROHIBIT C t In addition to the physical dlf- dlf dif difficulties of transporting quantities of poison polson ga gases es to u us whole hole clUe cities tho lie secretary I also 10 cited cUed that treaties have been made prohibiting their use ue In war war- warfare war faro faro fare and asserted that we iio e ha haie haa havea 0 a right to assume that thal thes these I treaties have hate been lIeen made in good g faith and will alli III be lived up to I |