GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1902, 14 November 1918, Page 1

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

ANTIDOTE TO “MUSTARD GAS.” “Mustard gas” is used in liquid form. It is particularly deadly, and, unlike oilier gasses, clings for days to the sector in which it has been projected. A drop on the bare skin will cause a serious burn. An ointment, made after a formula prepared by chemists connected with the United States Army Chemical Welfai'e Section, has the power to neutralise the poisonous effects of this “mustard gas/’ In one month 800,000 tubes of (his ointment was sent to United States forces in France. It is rubbed on the body before a gas attack. Men on special duty to clear trenches of all traces of gas are now provided with underwear chemically treated so as to neutralise poison gas. PILOT’S PETS. Not a few well-known pilots have owned favourite dogs, and perhaps (he most famous were those which belonged successively to the late Captain Gordon 8011. One was a Great Dane, Kroshka by name, which was a familiar feature of the Brooklands .meetings in the old days, and still flourishes at Omnia Aircraft Works at Leagrave, where he is regarded by Mrs Morris Hewlett as absolutely indispensable to the establishment. Another of Gordon Bell’s pets was a bull-pup, which fell out of a fourth storey window and narrowly missed (he head of no less a personage than the Duchess of Westminster, who was walking on the pavement below. With groat humanity the duchess promptly hailed a taxi and drove the injured animal to the nearest vet., but unfortunately without avail. A much-hated animal not long ago, was attached to a certain squadron at the front, and losing all patience with his vagaries, the moss decided to settle his hash for good and all. A pineapple bomb was hurled at the offending quadruped, which immediately retrieved the missile, and started back, with the “Mills" in its mouth, towards (he cluster of.spectators! Of course, there was a wild stampede, the “ground speed’’ of the fleeing pilots being wonderful to behold, hut the bomb which the dog so gaily earned duly went off, and “the subsequent proceedings interested him no more.”