THE NEW WAR

Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1928, Page 6

THE NEW WAR

A GERMAN PAMPHLET

ON GAS POISON fXG

l/'niteci Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

BERLIN, Dec. 1-1

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 faniiiiai with modern war methods, which in 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 “iVjr instructional purposes,'” from the works of Hugo Stollzonburg, 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, therefore gas warfare and perhaps also bacteriological warfare is necessary, “to destroy the illusions created by the multiplicity of peace pacts.” According to the newspaper “Retefaline,” at Wall nor, a dynamite farory is being constructed in a huge underground chamber of reiuloivod concrete near Cologne, in order to sore the existing m of twelve tour of phosgene gn .. Hi. pamphlet points out that a -oldim-. ignorant of war endangers ihr --“<univ of (ho count >’y. It gives a list <J i'.i'o!v<‘ pnii | "| , d gases grouped '.nvoidiim to the inari ■ u*ecl on the German gas shell in war time. It explains the subject in popu lar language, bo.ea’use “scientific lit oratnre is sin h -olid reading.” 'I !:<• sample boxes resemble toy chemb-a' outfits, which arc a favourite C’! ifi . mas gift for school hoys, and comprist sixty test tubes of twelve gases, sixty cartridges for a pistol. A hook <d instructions tells how to discharge tin pistol in a sealed room. Experiment ers must use gas masks, but only eye irritants should thus he tried. It is recommended that the deadliest gases ■ should be tried on animals, preferably cats. A doctor should he present, because the medical personnel must become familiar with the prop-* er treatment in peace time, as a preparation for-war, besides, as the explosion in .Hamburg showed that accidents may happen in peace time.

Finally Stoll/.onburg factory issues first aid oufits for treatment of gapoisoning.