PAINLESS WAR

NZ Truth, Issue 1062, 1 April 1926, Page 1

PAINLESS WAR

NEW POISON GAS Chemical Campaign (From "Truth's" Special London Rep.) Professor Julius Meyer, who directed the gas attacks from the German front during the Great War, has written a book the thesis of which is that the next World wa-' — whenever it should happen — • wiil be the most humane on record. He thinks that what should make gas Ftta'cks the safest of all kinds of warfare is the possibility of equipping men so well to resist it on both 1 sides that temporary disablement only would be the result and the death-rate nil. If wars come to be fought on a chemical basis, with chemical antidotes growing at the same rate as new gases, the war victims of the future should be victims for the duration of the campaign only, and recover as completely from their ill -effects as the patient who sufferers under anaesthetics. Professor Meyer disposes of many fantastic notions that have cropped up during recent years of new andmora terrible poison gases and m particular states that the American "dew of death" invented toy Captain Lewis bears the greatest resemblance to the German "Green Cross" gas.