GAS FIGHTING PLANNED IN 1908
In the course of a letter written in France. Mr. Richard Norton, founder and director of the American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps, stated that some very interesting gas machines had been captured from the Germans. These were of two sorts, one for the production of gas, the other to counteract its effects. The latter were rather elaborate and heavy, but very effective, instruments, consisting of two main parts— one to slip over the head, protecting the eyes and clipping tbe nose; the other an arrangement of bags and bottles containing oxygen which the wearer inhaled through a tube held in the mouth. There were several forms of these apparatuses, but the most interesting point to note about, them is that one had stamped upon it the words: "Type of 1914 —developed from type of 1912, developed from type of 1908," thus showing that seven years ago the Germans had decided to fight with gas.
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 2, 4 January 1916, Page 4
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159GAS FIGHTING PLANNED IN 1908 Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 2, 4 January 1916, Page 4
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