POISON GASES

Northern Advocate, 17 December 1928, Page 5

POISON GASES

SINISTER SAMPLE BOXES

SCHOOLBOYS INSTIGATED.

DYNAMITE FACTORY ,UNDERGROUND.

(Australian Press Association.)' (Received 9.28 a.m.) BERLIN, December 16.

“Because we cannot abolish war,” says a pamphlet .published in Hamburg, “it is the duty of the nation’s leaders and every officer, soldier and educated person to become familiar with modern war methods, which these days means chemical warfare.” The pamphlet is distributed gratis, in order to push the sale of small sample boxes of the deadliest war poison gases, “for instructional purposes,” from' the works of Hugo Stoltzehburg, where the great poison gas disaster occurred. The;pamphlet argues that the peace movement is futile. The world is arming, therefore there will be wars, consequently gas warfare, and perhaps also bacteriological warfare. It is necessary “to destroy the illusions 'created by the multiplicity of peace pacts.” According to the newspaper “Rotefahre Wiahner,” a dynamite factory is toeing constructed in a huge underground chamber of reinforced concrete near 'Cologne, in order to store the existing stock of 12’ tons of phosgene gas.

The pamphlet points out that, a soldier ignorant of gas war endangers the security of his country. It gives a list of 12 principal gases, grouped according to the marks used on Gorman gas shells in wartime. It explains the subject in popular language, because “scientific literature is 'sack solid reading.’ 1 • The sample boxes resemble toy chemical outfits, which are a favourite • Christmas gift for schoolboys. Each box comprises 60 test tubes of the 12 gases, 60 cartridges and a pistol.

The book of instructions tells how to discharge the pistol in a sealed room. Experimenters must use gas masks, but only eye Irritants should thus be tried. It is recommended that the deadlier gases should be tried on animals, preferably cats. A doctor should be present, as the medical personnel must become familiar with the proper treatment in peace time as a preparation for war; besides, as the explosion in Hamburg showed, accidents may happen in peace time. Finally, the Stoltzenburg factory issues first-aid outfits for the treatment of gas poisoning.

A DEADLY DISCOVERY.

CAN iSNUFF OUT ARMIES.

(Australian Press Association.) (■Received 11.22 a.m.) NEW YORK,, December 15. Dr Hilton Jones, of Chicago, an in.teirnationally known' chemist, announces that there is a new poison gas, eaeodyliss cyanide, so deadly that it would destroy armies in the next .war as easily as a man snuffs a candle.