The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-03-27
SAYS SLEEPING GAS
WILL WIN NEXT WAR
ENGLISHMAN DECLARES 1T
WILL SEND ARMIES INTO
SLUMBER FOR HOURS.

lSNJN OAJN, Lug w AACAN - 1890
will be put to sleep in the next war.
Such is the vision into the future
given by Col. ]. F. c. Fuller, chief OF
staff OF the British tank corps An the
world war, who, in a startling pre-
diction OF what will happen in the
next world conflict, paints the follow
! ing overwhelming picture OF the tate
of future armies:
/ "One thousand airplanes approach.
They do not skim 100 feet above the
road, but fly at an altitude well out
! side effective bullet range. They open
their chemical tanks and fine spray
and fog envelops the astonished army.
Suppose that this gas is a deadly
poison. all the men shortly will die.
! Suppose that this gas is but on an
aesthetic, then the whole army will
| fall into "a mystic sleep What gen
eral on earth is going to win decisive
| battles if whole divisions and corps
are put to bed for several hours at
( time?"
! War, Colonel Fuller firmly believes,
will never be abolished, despite efforts
of the pacihsts. Therefore, the thing
to do is humanize war by making it
more effective than ever (contradic-
tory as it sounds), at a smaller cost in
| life and money. Gas and more gas.
| That is the solution, says the colonel.
The war of the future will more than
ever be a war on morale and gas will
! be the most effective weapon III de-
stroying it.
The war Of the future will be to-
| tally different from the last war and
| if the great powers enter another
struggle in 1850 the recent conflict
will appear to those far distant fight
ers as a struggle between barbaric
| hordes. a saurian contest" said Col
onel Fuller.
Would "Humanize" War.
Modern science has placed at the
disposal of the soldier means which it
was impossible to make use of few
years ago, and these means will hui
mamie war and raise it from the
present barbarous footing to higher
ethical position" he continued.
Colonel Fuller has put these and
other absorbing thoughts on future
battles between nations in book call
ed The Reformation of War" and
recently published in London. Bonn
bardments lasting four days will be
impossible, he thinks, and campaigns
will be won in 48 hours, due to amaz-
| ing Developments which will be made
in the use OF gas.
! "This monstrous attack by shells
was doomed to failure because bonn
bardments lasting from to Il days
rendered any form OF surprise impos-
sible. Compared with the possibilities
of gas-the methods used in the last
ACCOMPLISHMENTS, storming OF po-
sitions and trench warfare seems as
primitive as duels between knights in
armor.
killing is not the real need OF war,
as is popularity supposed. 1t is only
necessary to defeat the enemy, not
kill him. Gas enables us to do this
because there is no reason why gases,
as weapons, should be of a lethal ma
ture.
In the last war they were frequent
| w so, because soldiers and civil sup
pliers of soldiers had become so &C
| customed to think in temrs OF killing
that when gas was proposed as a
weapon they at once looked upon It
in the form of a microscopic bullet.
Calls Sneeze Gas Effective.
Colonel Fuller even suggests sneeze
gas as an effective means III the hands
Imagine depot drenched with a
sneeze mixture" he asserted. 1T
would cease to work for long time
and mile of roadway drenched with
tear gas would make it impossible for
days-more impossible than if the
road were smothered in barbed wire
or the rails were removed from the
railway. Why destroy in war when it
isn't necessary"
London's experiences in the last
war will be mere child's play COM
pared with the aerial and gas attacks
it will suffer in the next, Colonel Full
Ter warns.