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Show GAS POISION FOR SOLDIERS Whether we are justified in copying the German example In regard to the use of asphyxiating gases is amatter o n which the British army will soon give an answer in the field. . It Is interesting to note that there is no difficulty about producing chlorine chlo-rine gas which" Is that mainly em ployed by the Germans and discharging discharg-ing it at the enemy's trenches when the wind Is favorable. Any of our manufacturing chemists could pro-duce pro-duce enough chlorine In a day or two to suffocate the whole German army from the Yser to the Vistula, Xor chol-rine chol-rine is familiar to English chemical manufacturers, ,who, until a few years ago were the only makers to this chemical. Chlorine is a greenish-yellow gas with a peculiarly unpleasant and suffocating suf-focating small, and with those terrible effects on the lungs, throat and mem. branes of its victims which havo been described by Dr. Haldance and Sir John French. The cost of suffocating our troops by the Germans is not heavy. Liquid chlorine costs about $125 a "ton, containing con-taining 170 gallons, and this will pro duce a large volume of deadlv gas. It Is interesting to note that the idea of "gassing" an enemy was suggested nearly, half a century ago by four Frenchmen, but at that time it was thought that the invention was too horrible to be allowed in field opera, tions, although It was agreed that it might be used by small storming parties par-ties nt close qunrters, whenthe gases might be compressed, in shells and flung by catapult. According to Truth, however, the invention came to noth-ing. noth-ing. London Tit-Bits. on |