"WAR BY CHEMISTRY."

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 61, 11 March 1916, Page 16

"WAR BY CHEMISTRY."

RUSKIICS PHOPHETIC LETTE&cJfI Barbarous Prussian methods of wajjAnj%s; have given bitter fulfilment to a propM Jt smade bj John Baskin 52 years ago, letter now opportunely pnbliehed for i ;t|:V I first time in the "Strand Magazine." \ i i;.":C relates to warfare by "poisoned bclletsT.T,.; . "nitric acid," and "fulminating silver," was addressed to Colonel Bruce, ward's tutor at Woolwich. The letter, scivt:'. in Sic possession of Captain Cacide.ll,- I £9 ' dated Denmark Hill, January 2, contains the following:— . I "Yon soldiers are the life of Englu* I j Just now, but I wonder when it will coni ■ : into your heads that ycu were never me»f|j}Jj> Ito be blown out of engines, nor to uzht bf ■ .chemistry. V ft . "Some day Europe may perhaps percsiT«|t>||: mnst perceive in dne time, but perhaps ft* I fearful teaching, that civilised nations £*, should settle their quarrels as civilised tne J -. do, on terms, and with choice of weapoJSJ I and that to fight with Greek fire and nmll ( and any others of yonr cursed Woolwich! -. apparatus is just as if two gentlemen, Itt-I"-,. stead of fishting with sword or pistol, went! I each, first to his apothecary to fill msl,-..-----pockets wirh nitric acid and silver, to *c thrown in his antagonist's face I "Do you know. If you dent mend yojrl t manners you - ll soon ronie to poisoncil bnl- I '"- Tou're all straight on the way to U." I .