THE NEXT WAR

Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1929, Page 5

THE NEXT WAR

A COMING HOHHOB. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this dav at 9. a.m.) LONDON. Fob., 3. A dropped mcsage says Lord Halsbury painted a lurid picture jn his speech on the effects’of a gas attack on London, which he was personally convinced was coming. Lord Halshury. who is assistant inspector of high ex plosive, in the Ministry of Munitions, was engaged in the war’s closing months with planning a long distance bombardment of Germans. He urged Londoners to get into a panic now about gas. instead of waiting until an attack was made. Dr Hans!ion, head of the German Chemical Warfare Department, has said we are going to he the first nation in chemical warfare. That nation will have the Lost weapon ever forged and completed in the Empire or world. Lord Halshurv recalled that during an attack on a ton miles front in France. 350 tons of phosgene gas were used. It canalised up two valleys, producing a fatal effect on two villages 21 miles away the same night. It could he dropped by thirty-five aircraft today with a. similar result in Thames Valley. He envisaged attack after attack on London at two hour intervals, continued possibly for two or three days. As a cliomLt lie was sure a pas liad already been discovered, worse tiian anything used in the last war. It was useless to rely on gas masks since a mask was effective for one gas hut was ineffective for another.