Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-05-28
lBy United Eews.1


LONDON. May 27.-Drugs and dead.
~ gases will win the next war.
Chemical experts make this state
heht AFTER carrying to conclusion
experiments dating back into the clos
ing hours or the world war.
ihey warn the public that another
word war would he the most APP
pa'Iing holocaustNsince the beginning
of time.
ne warning may have been made
10 back up the prediction Of Premier
Lioyd George. who told American
newspaper men recently at Genoa that
unless the great powers got to-
Hether- such Il holocaust may arrive
within" the present generation
IL is admitted that experts have
been experimenting with drugs, gases.
poisons. air. land and sea monsters
The next war. when II comes. viii
be 50 terrible. so soaring TO mind
and body and soul. that after 1t has
swept the world bare few OF the com
batants VIII be left.
Gas. fumes. liquid poIAons. flaming
IRE liquids, asphyxia;ing vapors
poured from n high altitude. will be
the prime features when nations next
start wiping each other from the face
OF the earth. these experts say
Win the instrumentaiitirs already
possessed by the great powers. the
Nooi"orth Building. for Instance
could be made 10 collapse like "a
child's Pack Of cards on the crowd,
on Park Row and Broadway
VIII Blot Ont Towns
one Of these mighty bombs now
bcinS turned out In the United States
would easily AMOUNT for woolworth's
little soo-foot pile.
Just as easily. with these new
weapons OF torture, could thousands
OF men be fr!zzled TO death under a
hai OF burning oil dropped from the
skies like a summer rains,orm. Sim
ilarly thousands could be Just as
quickly and simply choked to death
hy fog of poison gas bianketed
on town OF the size of Detroit or
pittsburgh. in the space OF ono and n
haif minutes
There viii be no declaration Of war.
army men believe. when the mex, Ar.
masGddon comes. The first lntlma
lion that disaster. IL on w viii be.
experts think, a casualty list In the
ncwsrapcrs"-a casualty list which
VIII no longer be "A recitation or
names OF killed and wounded. but OF
towre b!otted out. burnt and de-
s,roysd.
"rhricc armed is he who gets his
bio" In hrst"--to naTaphrase an old
iroverh-w!ll be the motto Of the
"arring parties. Experts know that
cannot be otherwise. especially
When the hst attack WILL in all prob
ABILITY come from tho air
Air commandments. British air ON,
"ials declare. accompanied bv air gas
;'nks VIII undoubtedly open the
'HWpaiSn q! death on either side
"nd. OF course, the capitals Of the
warning nations will be chosen as the
hrst principal targets.
Iu' that vii! he just a preliminary
:" the launching OF the gian, land
ayr ana subt"rrancan offensive, which
WI cast tho world into darkness.
VITA th- electric power stations rem.
"cr"f useless by repeated bombing
tht nights VIII he one long horror
oniS riNaIlcd in fear by the terrors
which VIII stalk by day.
Nnon the nest great war breaks
:!vs 7rrntcH viii not march 10 enemy
hotders. ~ Germany did in 1914.
Instead, they VIII be entertained In
giant air lorries-F!tth Avenue buses
OF the skics-and whizxed at break
neck speed TO the front.
There they viii be landed under m.
cover Of smok. screens TO man the
giant tanks taiready almost AN ac-
complished facD which will crawl
along the beds OF rivers TO come 10
the surface opposite enemy towne.
there to huri their poison gas shells.
their fire bombs, their high explosives
and their disease-sDreading projec-
tiles on the sleeping people
Trenches Will hardly perform such
q leading part in the next war as
they die in the last for the simple
reason that events Will move more
Bwiftly.
Old Order Must Change.
0what use would trenches be ex-
ports say. when explosives used viii
be so powerful that battalion dug
In VIII go rocketing heavenwards by
the more pressure OF button or the