“BUY THEM NOW”

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11827, 7 January 1933, Page 5

“BUY THEM NOW”

GAS MASKS AT CURT STM AS

GERMAN SALESMANSHIP

BERLIN, Dec. 22

“A sensible present for Christman is a modern gas mask. The next war will be a poison-gas war.' Tiny your gaS mask now”.; r? r This ' seasonable advertisement appears in a Nationalist newspaper, in which it is also announced that classes for housewives on protection against poison bombs will begin shortly. Gas masks are displayed prominently in the shop windows.

TS BANNING POSSIBLE?

EXPERTS VERY DOUBTFUL

CU.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Rco. .Jan. C. 7.45 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 0. Is it possible to ban chemical warfare? This and cognate questions were submitted by the Bureau ol the Disarmament Conference to a committee, composed of chemical experts and naval and military officers, representing ton countries. This committee now reports that the difficulties arc practically insurmountable. Chemical research serves the highest interests of mankind and cannot be hindered.

Chemical warfare can rapidly he organised in any country possessing an. important chemical industry. The use of the weapons and instruments requires no special training. Poisonous shell or gas-bomb supervision, by statistic measures or the inspection of factories, has little practical use and would, at best, only delay chemical warfare, not prevent it. The committee is equally emphatic that is not possible to prevent preparations for bacteriological or incendiary warfare. ‘•PROHIBITION NOT USELESS” The Daily Telegraph, in an editorial, says that it by no means follows that formal prohibition of these methods of warfare would he useless, for a breach would .justify reprisal. The best hope is that the non-belligerent States will promptly outlaw any offender.