GAS IN WARFARE

Evening Star, Issue 19128, 21 December 1925, Page 5

GAS IN WARFARE

GERMAN COMPOSITION REVEALED NO DANGER IN FUTURE. Brass Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, December 20. (Received December 21, at 9.10 a.m.) The Berlin correspondent of the ‘Observer’ states that Pro lessor Julius Meyer, the organiser of German gas attack in war lime, has written ‘The Devil’s Cookery Book,’ revealing the composition of the German poisonous gases. Nevertheless, lie suggests that the next war, whenever it occurs, will he the most humane and not the most terrible on record. Professor Meyer assert that there is no danger of aerial gas bombardments causing terrible losses, owing to antiaircraft measures and the impossibility of obtaining intensity ol fumes horn the tong range at which aeroplanes would he compelled to operate. Gas warfare should ho the safest, because oi Hie possibility of equipping troops with chemical antidotes to resist the most dangerous gases. Only temporary disablement was likely, from which (he men would recover as speedily as patients from amrsthetics. The death r ,f '' would lie nil.—Sydney ‘Sim’ Cable.