THE POISON TERROR OF THE BATTLEFIELD
GERMAN NEWSPAPER DEFENDS USE OF GAS. By Telegraph—Prese Association-Copyright ■ Amsterdam, June 27. The "Cologne .Gazette," in a semiofficial defence of the uso of asphyxiating gases, says: "The bade idea of Tile Hague Agreement is the prevention of unnecessary cruelty and' unnecessary killing when milder methods of nutting out of action are possible. It has always been permissible to compel evacuation of positions by flooding. Those who were not indignant or surprised when water was used as a weapon against us in Flanders ars not entitled to be indignant when we employ the air to carry stupefying gases. "The Hague Convention desired to prevent the wholesale destruction of human lives without a chance of escape, which occurs if poisonous gas shells are rained down on a defenceless enemy, who does not see them coming and is irremediably exposed to them. Tho changed forms of warfare makes new methods continually necessary, and since this war we must draw our own conclusions from the conditions of trench warfare. The enemy's outcry is only due to his incapacity to emulate the results of Gorman ssience."
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2500, 29 June 1915, Page 5
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