KRAUSS AND REDDEMAN

Taihape Daily Times, 29 November 1918, Page 6

KRAUSS AND REDDEMAN

MOST HATED MEN IN GERMANY

Henry Weilback, a Dutch chemist, resident here, who during the first years of the war worked at Leipzig, laboratories, says the two most hated men in Germany to-day are Professor Krauss", the inventor of poison gas, and ■Major -Eeddcman, who invented flam•enwerfer, and the method of hurling boiling oil (writes the New York correspondent of the Daily Telegraph.) When the gas and liquid flame were first hurled against their enemies the Germans proclaimed the two inventors as heroes. They were feted, decorated, Etnd recognised as master geniuses. Later, when the two frightful weapons wore turned against the German soldiers' with more deadly consequences than they have ever achieved, and when trainloads of Germans gassed by their own deadly . vapours began to arrive from the front, Krauss became the object of nage and hatred. In the same manner, the German people w r erc surprised and delightful when Ecddeman developed the flame-throw-er, but when the Allies made a bettor flame-thrower they cried “Atrocity,” and began throwing things at their former idol. Tho Germans ;arc terribly sorry now, according to Weilback, that they ever developed gas and flame as weapons of attack, but only because

the weapons reacted powerfully against them. This is particularly true in Flanders, whore the winds from the Channel have mostly favoured the Allies. Both Krauss and Eeddcman underwent severe strafing by German public sentiment, although they retained their decorations, Ecddeman, who used to be known as “Lord of tho Flamenwerfcr, ’ ’ has now been xochristoncd the “Prince of Hell.”