The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-08-11
France Prepares For
More Deadlier Strife

Although France played a prom:-
nent part at the various peace con-
fercnces which have been held since
the signing of the armistice, Novem-
ber IL, 1918, yet, according to reports
from Paris, remembering the million
men she sacrificed in the last war,
she is preparing for the next war or
far greater scale than ever before,
a scale of such terrifying extent that
following war will be impossible.
France realized in the last war that
man power must be preserved for the
duties of peace and that mechanical
methods must be depended upon to
win the next conflict. Therefore her
experts are bending every effort To-
produce war machines which will be
capable of wholesale destruction, mo-
chanical agencies which will make her
immune from another German in
vasion or attack by any other powe-.
France realizes that in few years
certain Of her enemies can develop
Supcliod man pcwer. Therefore, with
:. decreasing French population in con-
sideration, France, born in war and
fighting for centuries. is preparing for
the next war by developing machines
whose frightfulness is as yet un-
known
"The airplane," asserts Marshal
Foch. capable every day of carrying
greater burdens, will provide a fresh
means of flooding with poison gases.
contained in large and small bombs,
not only the opposing armies but also
the centers of population in the rear,
and even of making certain districts
quite uninhabitable. Chemical war
fare will thus be able to bring about
the most terrible consequences, and
that over huge tracts of territory"
Although France is now working
upon artillery plans for Superior
thas" that may make the German
long-range ,bombardment of Paris
small in comparison. The French
plan, insofar as gas attacks are con-
cemed, is to depend little upon gas
shells, but upon gas bombs, to be
dropped from huge aerial fleets, thus
destroying the morale of the civilian
population.
Toxic gas, which attacqs the ner-
vous system, did not prove successful
when used by the French, nor did the
iachmatory gasses, which produced
only temporary blindness. Therefore,
the favorite French gas, best applica-
! bic for attack upon towns, because OF
its permanent effects, is an improved
form of mustard gas.
In the next war the aerial fleets
dropping mustard gas bombs on cities.
IN addition to causing many deaths.
will likely make the places absolute
~ uninhabitable for many days. Ac-
ccrding to the report of the engineers
now experimenting, the penetrating
gasses will make populations of cites
hopelessly insane, killing the chill.
dren and turning the adults into
idiots.
Armament experts are bending e..
c'Y effort toward develop no !ong~
range guns which will master any
opposing army, and they report that
they have succeeded TO a major de
gree. All the world knows that the
greatest artillery feat in history was
the German bombardment of Paris
IN 1918 by the "Berthas," which hurl-
cd shells distance of more than 7Ol
miles. According to General Herr,
artillery leader of Verdun, the French
experts today have succeeded this rec
ord, perfecting guns which will DOM
mate all of Belgium, the coast Of
England, down the coast of Spain and
IN fact, the entire English channel.