POISONOUS GAS IN WAR

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2489, 16 June 1915, Page 7

POISONOUS GAS IN WAR

POSSIBILITIES OF CHEMISTRY AND ELECTRICITY AN INTERVIEW WITH EDISON Now York, June 14. i Mr. Thomas A. Edison, the famous : inventor, in an interview, expressed the I viow thai, the boundless possibilities of > science as applied to warfare were far , from oxluuistud. Chemistry and eleo- < tricity had been liardly tonelied. Ho - would apply himself to the problem if . his country wore attacked, but he - could see no necessity for the United ; States to enter war. "Wo should endeavour," lie said, "to 1 keep it tho only briglit spot on. earth." 1 The idea that they wore armed for con- ; flicfc with Germany and the possibility of diplomatic relations being sev- • erod had presented itself to him, but 3 ho could not conceive tho United p States sending untrained troops to the battlefields of Europe. "Surely," he asked, "with submarines and poisonous gases, war is sufficiently horrible without, my devices and new instrnj monts." 3 WHAT THE CANADIANS FOUND. f (Rec. Juno 15, 11.30 p.m.) 1 _ London, June 15. A Canadian writes that when his 1 company captured the enemy's trenches they found eight reservoirs of poison gas marked 1914, and respirators marked SYSTEMATIC USE OF POISONED SHELLS CONTEMPLATED BY THE GERMANS. London) Juno 14, _ The "Times" correspondent at Washl- ington says that it seams that tho il Romans nrp contemplating the systet matic use of poisoned shells. ' An extraordinary advertisement has been published by an American munitions firm, puffins; a peculiar type of poison shells. Tho inference, is that Germany will accede to the Allies using them, preparatory to her own employment of them.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) e ABANDONMENT OF GAS WARFARE J PREDICTED * CHEMISTRY EXPERT'S VIEW. a . Sydney, June 15. e sfr. Fred. Wriglit, the chemistry ox- •_ pert of tho firm of Elliott Bros., prer diets that the_ use of poisonous gases •. in warfare will be abandoned, as >_ power to counter-attack by means of v either heavy explosives or neutralising the chemicals' will render it abortive, He. also pointed out that it waß only successful when employed from an eminence.