The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1921-11-01
Gases Played Most
Important Part
= During World War

.' NaSC areas OIL war vases IN the up
per spaces in which aeroplane pilots
Will b. instant death; pockets of hy- .
droas, fich will burst into flame as
ansaa us.entefss them; attack de-
fyiRgs b .sages created by the chemist
Ia Complete system OF. chemical Of
fepse and rdefense-is the picture
painted by; General Eugene Oebeney.
cornhlandersof the French first army
Turing the. war in describ ing the tao
ties that the general stats of the lead
tng nations, of the world are now en-
seavoring to perfect. j."
HIf hostilities had been drawn out
sorAa fews.months longer" says Gen
,eralS DebeAey, "the war,4of explosives
would have become a struggle between
The rnanufacturerssof gases"
"Toscreate supplies sof chemicals
and gas isTso simple, the French gen
eral points, out, stali that is needed
is "a laboratory md "a few dye fac
sories. And then the path Of scientific
researchfis 80 broad. Coiorless, aodor-
less gases will beediscovered, that can
be Condensed into infinitely small
compass and soiidiHedp into tablets and y
pills. Already we know Something of ]
what tho effects of THESE things will.
Ibe,s Scatter the CONTENDS OF few
smal boxes on the ground and 4 dense
t,aafue nist
a favorable Wind, over Several saaafs
miles of countryside. A deadly; fo9
fatal to everything living within il
area, will be created at and desire
point merely by a shot from a. cannf 4
Of even from cunningly placed ma
| chine gun. Broad belts of territory
and entire villages will be poisoned
| and rendered unapproachable for
weeks at time by other gases poured
out here and there, drop at time.
| "Where will one be able to go?
There, the ground is suspect; that
airplane overhead may be dropping
an impenetrable fog in another di-
lection at a third point a sudden shot
from a gun has created an area of sew
eral acres covered with an atmosphere
of strychnine; those bushes down
/ there may breathe out an invisible
wave of death.
"The poor infantryman will stag
| ger along under an enormous mask,
covered with a shapeless and gas
proof cloak, and protected, as to the
feet, with insulated soles. Chemistry
makes no attempt to preserve manly
beauty, and worries itself still less
in regard to the feelings of the wo-
man who may have the desire to rec
oGnize, under the disguise Of this hid
eous diverlike costume, the beloved
features of the heroic husband, son
or sweetheart Poor women
Against attacks by airships ba
RACES will be launched-no longer
infantile barrage fire of expI
and shrapnel, but bar'ages of n
gas that will create in the
poisoned pockets" in VII
happy pilot will yneet
death; pockets of y ydr,
burst into flame 4s II Fields
dreds of fiexiblex,
which will smasEThe work in
; stroy both pilot als virtually at
will be filled WI the walkout
snares. hes, according
"On the terres headquarters
tight tanks will be Gccrs of the
infantry, fitted with D, awaiting
reaction will reveal 1 pc coun-
hidden gas and enable telc-
mediately to launSh- souateSA the
selg-propelled watering cars->~r1
, deluge the poisoned ground with u,
antagonistic liquid"
al General Debeny believes that chem
Q ical attack and defense will tend tc
offset each other provided that tn,
rival nations are equally skilled. Tn,
expert chemist will find way to neu
tralize poison gases. However. tn,
) French veterans concludes, the natio,
that fails to develop chemical research
S and chemical industr 4 be power
= less against hight led invade
G even. though the actacking force
might be inferior numerically.