WEAPONS OF WAR

NZ Truth, Issue 538, 9 October 1915, Page 4

WEAPONS OF WAR

Yankee Skite About their Shells

A Ghoulish Advertisement.

It Is well known that the Yankees, with that keen eye for the muln chance which has always distinguished them, are turning the war to good account, and are piling up huge fortunes out of tho manufacture of munitions; but it Is not so generally known that the trade m implements of murder is pushed m the aamo way and by tho same methods as the trade m chewing gum or wooden hams. In an advertisement In the "American Machinist." the Cleveland Automatic Machine Company extols the virtues of its now explosive shells, which it guarantees will KILJ, MORE MEN, m quicker time, und m more awful agony than any other shells on the market. Here follows portion of the advertisement referring to 131 b and lSlb shells: The material la high m tensilo strength, and very special, and has ii tendency to fracture into small pieces upon the explosion of the nhell. The timing of the fuse for this shell Ik similar to the shrapnel shell, but it differs In thut two explo«lvo ueldn aro used to explode the nhell In the largo cavity. The combination of these two acids eauHCH a terrific explosion, having more power than anything of Its kind yet twod. Fragments become <;oated with these acids m exploding uud wounds caused by them moan DEATH IN TERRItfU3 AGONY within four. hours if not attended to immediately. From what we are able to learn of concUUona In tho trenches, it is not possible, to get medical assistance to anyone In time to prevent fatal remit is. It Ih necessary to Immediately cauteriso tint wound if In iho body or head, or to amputate If In the limbs, as there seemx to be no antidote: that will counteract the poiHon. It can be seen from this that this shell Is more effective than tho rogulur Hhrapnel. since the woundH caufcd by ithrapnH ballit and frugHUMttn In the muscles are NOT AS DANGEROUS, an they huvc nn pulsonuux element making prompt attention nei.i-H---nary. Kor cold -blooded Inhumanity this is