The Cordova daily times., 1919-05-26

produced commercially in the United States was chlorine and even with that the supply was utterly made quate to the demand.
 A statistical table shows that 1,488 tons of chlorine in liquir form; 1903 tons of chlorpicrin; APO tons of phos gene and 190 tons of mustard gas were actually shipped overseas from January to November, 1918. In addi- tion 100000 75-mm shells loaded with chlorpicrin and 150,O00 loaded with mustard gas went abroad, the ship ments including 224,000 phosporus grenades as smoke bombs and 18,6O0 phosgene bombs for Livens mortars. The capacity for filling shells and bombs on the day of the armistice ex- ceeded 4,800,0OO a month. At that time the practice of shipping gases abroad in bulk to be loaded into pro- jectiles on the other side had been abandoned.
 "We therefore shipped to Europe in bulk" the report states, 1862 tons of gas or it's equivalent, which gas was largely loaded into shells and used by the United States troops or those of the allies. This quantity was sufficient to load 1,6OOO00 shells, two thirds of them being of the 75-mm calibre and the other one third 155-mm, the total number being thought to be at least equal to the total number of gas shell fired by American troops in action.
 "Thus while American gas was not actually fired in American shell against the Germans, American gas was used against the enemy and America furnished at least as much gas as she fired.
 "In addition to this we shipped 1S,- 600 Livens drums loaded with phos- gene. These contained 279 tons of gas, and some of them were fired at the enemy" A table of casualties at the Edgewood arsenal shows that while only 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 5,25O,O0O masks was produced of which 100000 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 Ameri- can gas masks" the report says, land 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 depart ment was for 25,0O0 masks to go with Pershing's first expedition and the re- port tells in detail of the frantic ef forts necessary to procure them, eff forts which actually counted for little since the masks were not used for many months. At the time the ex- pedition sailed, the British and French were not thoroughly acquainted with the gas warfare that was developing nor had completed effective protection been worked out. In speaking of the first German gas attack upon Canad- ian troops at Ypres, the report says chlorine was used and while protec tion of the troops from it later became an easy matter, ''it was only lack of faith in, their new weapons that pre- vented the Germans from winning the war with it then and there"
 Had they brought into the fighting a sufficient supply of this chlorine" the report continues, they might