The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1921-09-30
NEXT WAR MEANS
DETERMINATION
Chemical Armaments Threat
To Races Unless Moral
Sense Is Aroused.
(BY X. Walter.O


people, and the Red Man would roam
again unmolested across the North
American continent. For such a
war would unquestiontbly be con-
Quoted ruthlessly and scientifically
and if the next war between two
great nations is conducted scientifical.
ly and .ruthlessly. the result is as
clearly foreseeable by scientists to-
day as is the result of any other eX-
pertinent in physics The combatant
nations would exterminate each 9th
now ready for use at few weeks no.
tice in sufficient quantities for their
farreaching headlines and swiftness
of action to make the fighting in
France look like an old-fashioned
gladiatOrial combat.
At the annual meeting of the Brit
ish Association, the president of that
great clearing house of scientific So
cieties, Sir Edward Thorpe. gave a
serious warning Of the present state
and rapid advancement of the scien-
tific art of wholesale destruction.
Wholesale Massacrcs.
The governments of the United
States and Japan are known to be
heavily engaged in chemical research
as a branch of their armament de-
partments. Scientists here are urg-
ing the British government to do
more on this line and so keep pace
with the other two great powers.
They declare that the American and
Japanese governments have elaborate
and extensive laboratories in which
the pick of their chemistry research
workers are employed, and that these
stocks of new and otherwise unknown
agents of destruction, powerful
enough to insure the wiping out of
the cities of America and Japan in
) any struggle between the two ma
tons. Military authorities admit
that, in any future war, most of the
and directed against the heart in
stead of the limbs of the enemy
country. A few American agents in
Toxic and Yokohama would massa-
ere the whole population of those and
other towns if necessary; while
simultaneously few japanese
in owl tel
would wipe out those and other
American cities that were helping to
win the war.
Sir Edward Thorpe did not hold
ont much hope that this dull disap-
pointing phase of warfare could be
avoided. In fact We are already in !
chat phase, having entered it on
April %, 1915.
New Horrors Invented
THE day which saw the clouds of |
asphyXiating chlorine slowly waited |
6rom the German trenches towards
The lines OF the allies" said Sir Ed
ward, witnessed one of the most bes-
iial episodes in history. The world
stood aghast at such a spectacle of
barbarism. German kulture had APP
parently absolutely no ethical value.
Poisoned weapons are employed by
savages, and noXious gas had been
used in Eastern warfare in early
times, but it's use was hitherto un-
known among European nations.
"How it originated among the Ger
mans-whether by the direct un'
prompted action of the higher com
mand, or, as is more probable, at the
instance of persons connected with
the great manufacturing concerns IT.
the Rhineland, has, so fas as know
no. transpired. From April, 1915, 10
September, 1918, no fewer than eigh-
teen different forms of poison-gas-
es liquids and solids-were employ
ed by the rmans. On the princi-
pie Of Vespasian's law, reprisanls be-
came inevitable, and for the greater
part of three years we had the sorry
spectacle Of the leading nations Of
The world hinglng the most deadly |
products at one another tha, cLemi-
cal knowledge could suggest and
technical skill contriye.
warfare, ii would seem, has now
definitely entered upon a new phase
The horrors which The Hague con