GAS WARFARE.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18571, 22 December 1925, Page 13

GAS WARFARE.

"SAFE AND HUMANE." GERMAN PROFESSOR'S PREDICTION. >r ciats-pjassa association—coptbiokt.) (SiMttr "Sus" Sxavicxo LONDON, Decemhep 20. The Berlin correspondent of the "Observer" states that Professor Julius Meyer, organiser of the German gas-attacks in tho war-time, lias writtea a "Devil's Cookery Book," revealing the composition of German poisonous gases. Nevertheless, Professor Meyer suggests that the next war, whenever it occurs, will be the fliost hiimano and not tho most terrible on record. Professor Meyer asserts that there is no danger of an nerial gas bombardment causing terrible losses, owing to anti-aircraft measures, nnd tho impossibility of obtaining an intensity of fumes from the long range at which airplanes would be compelled to operate. Gas warfare should be the safest, owing to the possibility of equipping troops with chemical antidotes to resist tho most dangerous gases until only temporary disablement is likely from which men would recover as speedily as patients from anesthetics. Tho death rato would bo nil.