The Nenana daily news., 1919-06-02
Official Publication Tells of Work of Chemical Warfare
 Division of the U. 5. Army

1S,600 Livens drums loaded with phosgene. These contained 279 tons of gas, and some of them were fired at the enemy" A table of casual ties at the Edgewood arsenal shows that while only four men lost their lives from gas at this plant, 925 were injured, the bulk of them, 674, in mustard gas accidents.
 Taking up the defensive side of gas warfare material, the report shows that the American troops had ''the best and most protective gas masks the world had seen; and they brought these with them by the millions" A total of 5,250,000 masks were produced, of which A. 000,00O were sent overseas, and the report states that these masks ''gave 20 times the protection afforded by the best German gas masks"
 No American soldier was ever gassed due to the failure of an American gas mask" the report says, ''and such gas casualties as did occur were due to the fact that the masks were not quickly enough utilized when the gas was thrown over, or because the soldier was unaware of the presence of gas"
 The original order from the de- partment was for 25,000 masks to go with Pershing's first expedi- ton, and the report tells in detail of the frantic efforts necessary to procure them, efforts which actu- ally counted for little, since the masks were not used for many months. At the time the expedition sailed, however, the British and French were not thoroughly ac- quainted with the gas warfare that was developing, nor had completed effective protection been worked out. In speaking of the first Ger man gas attack upon Canadian troops at Ypres, the report says chlorine was used, and while pro- tection of the troops from it later became an easy matter, ''it was only i lack of faith in their new weapon that prevented the Germans from winning the war with it then and there.
 <. Had they brought into the fight ing sufficient supply of this chlor- ine," the report continues, ''they might have gassed their way to Paris in short order. As it was, they brought to the line an almost negligible supply, and they them selves were insufficiently protected to go through their own gas and follow up the attack. By the time they were able to renew gas war fare the French and British had equipped themselves with masks which were sufficient to protect men against chlorine"
 The report tells of the develop ment of gas masks from the original gauge pads soaked in chemicals to the "box respirator" which came into general use The Americans and British employed double pro- tection mask, the face-piece being gas tight, but, to insure against leaks, mouthpiece and nose-clip being supplied also, insuring protec- tion even in torn mask. The first order was for 100000 of these masks for the American forces. ] Subsequently,, to provide greater comfort for the men, it was de- cided abroad that single protec- tion mask would be sufficient, the risk of leaky masks being regarded as preferable to the discomfort of the double protection type. When this decision was received, however, on this side, it was decided to carry forward experiments with new types of masks which would give both comfort and security. This was car ried forward to a point where a squad of 15O men in the field test , ing section almost lived in their gas masks, working, playing baseball, digging trenches, fighting sham bat ties day and night, in which actual gas grenades were employed, and exposing themselves to the heaviest concentrations of the deadly gases under all conditions.
 "The work of this section," the report says, "even went so far in the case of the later designs as to incldue test where six men work