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Show POISON IN WORLD WAR. Returning from the European war ' zone, Major Geneial William Crozicr, member of the ordnance and fortification fortifi-cation board, has brought the word that America must better prepare in , poison gas, and he forecasts a far greater use of the poison as a wea-' pon of war This is in accord wiih the observations observa-tions of the war correspondents who were in the present dri e on the 1 'ham-pagne 'ham-pagne front, where the Germans, employing em-ploying nine-inch gas shells, covered the area over which the French and British were retreating with poison gas. The wonder is that the Huns, having developed an effective gas shell, do not bomb London and Pans with this barbarous Instrument, in order that more women and children fall victims to their dev iltry Having revived the ancient method I of using poison, which for centuries j ceased to be considered a part of civilized, civi-lized, warfare, the Germans should be I treated to poison gas until they hold I I up both hands in horror J Germany certainly is earning pun- ishmcnt such as no other nation ever brought upon itself, and we beliovo one of the conditions preliminary to peace will be a thorough review of the German atrocities and generally dishonorable methods of making war. If The Standard were dictating the course the peace negotiations were to follow, the first questions asked the representatives of Germany would be: Who was responsible for your campaign cam-paign of frightfulnes6? Who instructed that poisoned gas be used? Who ordered women and children put to death? Who sanctioned the enslaving of j women and allowed the troops to be quartered with women and girls? |