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Show MORE PHIALS PICKED UP BY BOYS ALONG BEACH j NF.W YOKK. Auc i I P.y The As-soriated As-soriated Prees-i Tha mysterious yel-i yel-i low phials containing a white BUb-1 BUb-1 stance, Identified CM culclun, hypo-chloride hypo-chloride used to purify water, which .hae been appearing In the surf for I tw o weeks, continued todaj to be I cast upon the beach ee near here. Boys ore en'joylns a belated Fourth of July, combined with a mlnlntur trench warfare. "Komblng raids' are popular, because the phials e- I plodo with a bang when crasneu against stones The distinguishable 1 smell of chlorine gas. reached wjien the bom be are broken, add the thrill of a gas attack. I A chemical analysis of the contents of a phial today by an army officer here COltfrmed previous analysis. The officer said there was evidence of decomposition, de-composition, which caused '-he explosion. explo-sion. He urged that the phials be destroyed, as they were not exactly eafe playthings. The source of the phials Is still a i mystery Officers of the army port 01 embarkation said there had been no hlpnionts of the chemical to Europe 1 Mnoe the war. Neither is there an j record of a shipment being on any I ship sunk by submarines or mines although It was admitted this was pos-I pos-I slble. Examination of the harts of the I hydroajraphlc office indicate there is an ocean current which sweeps southward south-ward along the coast from the gu:t of St. Lawrence. This gives rise to the theor that some ships laden with medical supplies sunk by the 1-53, off the Newfoundland banks, might be I giving up its cargo Another theory was that some con-tdemned con-tdemned army supplies had been 1 dumped at sea to get rid of them. |