HORRORS OF FUTURE WAR

Evening Star, Issue 20051, 17 December 1928, Page 5

HORRORS OF FUTURE WAR

WORK IN THE LABORATORY GERMAN PROPAGANDA Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright! 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 in these days mean chemical warfare.” The pamphlet was distributed gratis in order to push the sal6 of small sample boxes of the deadliest .war

poison ■ gases “ for instructional purposes ” from tho works of Hugo Stolzonburg, where tho great poison gas disaster occurred. The pamphlet argues that the peace movement is futile as the world is arming, therefore there will bo> wars, gas warfare perhaps, and bacteriological warfare. “ It is necessary to the illusions created by tho multiplicity of peace pacts.” 1 _ According to tho newspaper lloteifahne Wahner,’ a dynamite factorv is being constructed in a huge underground chamber of reinforced concrete near Cologne in order to store the existing stock of twelve tons of phosgene gas. . The -pamphlet ( points out that a soldier who is ignorant of gas war endangers the security of the country. It gives a list of the twelve principal gases, grouped according to < marks used on Gorman gas shells in warpopular language because “ scientific reading is such solid reading.” The simple boxes resemble toy chemical outfits, which are a favourite Christmas gift for schoolboys, and comprise sixty test tubes of twelve gases, sixty cartridges and a pistol. A book of instructions tells how to discharge tho pistol in a sealed room. It is recommended that the deadly gas should be tried on animals, preferably on cats, and a doctor should bo present, because the medical personnel must become familiar with proper treatment in pence time, as a preparation for war. Besides, as the explosion in Hamburg showed, accidents may happen in peace time. Finally, tho Stoltzenburg factory issues first-aid outfits for the treatment of gas poisoning.— Australian Press Association..