SCIENCE IN WARFARE.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 January 1919, Page 5

SCIENCE IN WARFARE.

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"ailed; but the Allies lave shown remarkable fertility in this field, witness the portable Stokes' mortar of the British, which can be carried on a man's back, und the variety of hand and rifie grenades brought out by the French and British. The Germans thrown on defensive, developed the pill-box; but the Allies nt once 'countered toy mounting heavier guns in their tanks, the French even using their famous 75 in a r.ew tank of their own. design- Later they brought out the small, fast tanke, which have contributed so largely to the German defeat. When the war was carried into the open last spring, the Germans showed a small hand-drawn field-gun for use with the storm troops. It was tew heavy, and the trcops, disgusted,' Wt the pieeft behind. But the Kreneti built a Um piece, mncji lighter, whieh has done yeoman service in the great counter-offensive

The submarine, which the Germans have made an instrument of piracy, has served to stimulate allied invention more, perhaps, than any other agency of the war. So far as we know, except for its increase in size and speed, the Herman submarine l-eveals no fundamental, no radical improvement over the original American, French and Italian types. It is in meeting Ilia frightful emergency presented by the German resort to wholesale murder oil the high seas, that the Allies have risen to great heights of inventive gcniu3. The British developed the "blimp," or small laetj motor-boat and tiie depth bomt>; America contributed the seaplane; and Prance, Great Uritair. und America, tiie listening devices. But when Germany turned from the legitimate fields of warfare io those that are forbidden by the common consent of civilisation, she had the field to herself, i and her record will stand through the I ages to come as ft monument .to her lawless ferocity The list includes:—(l) The loosing of clouds of asphyxiating gas, calculated to kill with the most excruciating torture; (2) The discharge of ga3 sheila. (3) The spraying of the ewemy with CtTeams of liquid fire (4) The providing of German troops with inoeadi&ry grenades for setting Are to townc and \ illagcs, as was done during tfco occupation of Belgium. (0) The In-" vention of incendiary bomhs for dropping upon undefended towns. And although it necewritatod 110 mechanical invective faculty, it certainly called fcr a certain ingenuity of cruel reasoning to perceive that the bombing of hospitals and the sinking of hospital ships would preclude the return of t certain percentage of wotinded'Sien to tto-Sghttitt I"" 1 *: - '