LUST FOR BLOOD

Grey River Argus, 7 August 1925, Page 3

LUST FOR BLOOD

AMERICAN CHEMISTS OBJECT TO WAR IIESTIUCTIQNS Ne.W YOPiK, August 8Over a thousand members of the American Chemical Society, in annual session at Los Angelos, adopted resolutions declaring the recent prohibition of chemical warfare by the Geneva Conference to be a menace to humanity, and to the safety of the United States. Chemists vigorously declared that the pacifists were seeking to undermine national defence. The meeting contended that the pro hibition of chemical warfare meant the abandonment of humane methods for the old butchery of attack. It is also declared that as the Geneva Protocol goes no further than the Washington Conference, its ratification >row would embarrass the logical prosecution of scientific research on behalf of national defence, which at any time may be threatened by pacifists, who for this purpose had combined with the economists.