The Nenana daily news., 1919-06-02

 cial narrative of the part Ameri- can industry played in providing munitions for the American army in the great war is unfolded in 3 book being prepared under the di- rection of Assistant Secretary Crow ell of the war department, who was director of munitions up to the close of hostilities, when he was specially assigned by the Presi- dent to direct the demobilization of material.
 Advance pages of two sections of the book, those dealing with the chemical warfare material, offensive and defensive, and with the equip ment for the signal corps, have been made available, telling for the first time officially and completely not only of the stupendous scope of the projects, but of the difficulties and delays encountered and of the patriotic support of the war pro- gram given by American business generally.
 The chemical warfare section tells of the original work done by the ordnance department toward obtain ing toxic gases and anti-gas devices for the use of American troops. Subsequently, this service became a separate branch of the army under the direction of Major-General W. L. Sibert.
 Among other secrets disclosed is the basis of frequent statements that, at the time of the signing of the armistice, the United States alone was producing gases for mill tary use at a rate ten times in ex. cess of the best production Germany could obtain. The Germans pro. duced with all their facilities about six tons of mustard gas per day while the United States was pro. ducing more than 60 tons a day and employing methods of produc. tion far more modern and efficient than anything attained by the enc. my.
 The chemical name of this com pound is dichoretylsurplide, and its popular name of mustard gas comes from it's odor.
 Another element of the program was the production of tear gases not deadly under ordinary circum. stances, but designed to produce blindness, thus forcing the troops to use masks extensively, impairine their military efficiency. The found ation of these gases was bromine the main supply of which is ob tained from subterranean solutions found chiefly in the vicinity of Mid land, Mich, where the government financed the sinking of IF brine wells under direction of the Dow Chemical company, which was pre- pared to supply 65O,OO0 tons g year. .:.
 The other chief gases are the so-called killers" the gases SC deadly as to bring death unless safe guards are provided, chlorine anc chlorpicrin and phosgene. The only one of these produced commercially in the United States was chlorine and even with that the supply was utterly inadequate to the demand.
 A statistical table shows that 1,488 tons of chlorine in liquiC form; 1903 tons of chlorpicrn APO tons of phosgene and 19O ton: of musatrd oil were actually ship ped overseas from January to No vember, 1918. In addition, 300,O0( 75-mm. shells loaded with chlor picrin and 15O,000 loaded with mus tard oil went abroad, the ship ments including 224,ooO phosphoru grenades as smoke bombs and 18, 500 phosgene bombs for Livens nor tars. The capacity for filling shell: and bombs on the day of the sign ing of the armistice exceeded 4, 800,000 a month. At that time the practice of shipping gases abroad in bulk to be loaded into proiec