Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-10-02

was populous with a happy crowd; the sands
gay with children. The faint sounds OF a dis
tant band on the pier were punctuated rather
quantity by practice gunfire from distant fort.
About us, chairs Of the most comfortable
sort, sat the mature and prosperous. smiling
pleasantly at the three military airplanes that
Unanswered overhead. "Wonderful.' they
said.
or the hundreds OF people in sight them
many scores will certainly be killed in the hor
rible ways of war In the next 20 years; they
will be suffocated by lethal gases, torn to rib
bons by explosives. sent limping and crying
for help with frightful mortal mutilations.
buried and smashed and left to die under COL
lapsed buildings. Many more will be crippled;
most perhaps impoverished. But they weren't
worrying. They weren't taking life as serious
ly as that. Across the trim turf came group
of military officers, discussing some oaish
idea" of landing. OF Operations and
forth. and casting shadow at all upon the
smiling people about them. Just the same fine
sort of fellows they were, agreeably dull.witted
as sent hundreds of thousands of Englishmen
to cruel and useless deaths in France.
They passed and we heard note of anxiety
from adjacent bathchar. So after all there
some one who saw 1t as well ourselves!
We listened, but it was only old gentleman
worried by the mornings newspaper, vexed at
the last reprieve of Sacco and Vanzetti and
troubled by another fall in the British birth
rate. He was expostulating about it to his
stout and elderly wife, who assented as by habit
and seemed chiefly preoccupied with her knit
ting.
He did not know what the world coming
to, he said. Lucky old boy! He never may.
doubt if there was human being in sight
who likely to read Comdr. Ken
worthy's admirable chapter Of the application
of science in battle his other on war in the
air and learn the pleasures awaiting those
whose share in the next may include
Whit Of diphenyl choroarsine. Perhaps they
will know everything that Is practically mpor-
tant about this delicious substance long before
they know it's name. They may then try to
call it by some quite wrong name before they
choke. 1t Is very conveniently administered
by air bomb In the form Of an intensely irritat.
ing smoke which can penetrate most gas masks
yet devised.
X X X X
Says the 1926 Manual Of Chemical Warfare
"By Comdr. Kenworthy':
"In many slight and transtory nasal irrita.
ton is appreciate after an exposure Of five
minutes to as little as one part of diphenyl
chloroarsine in 200, 000, 900 parts of air. and
the concentration Is increased the irritation
shows itself sooner and in rapidly increasing
severity. Marked symptoms are produced by
exposure to part of dipheny chloroarsine
in 50,O00,00O parts of air, and 1t may be stated
in general that this concentration forms the
limit of tolerance of ordinary individuals for
an exposure lasting five minutes. A concen-
tration Of one part in 10000 900 will probably
incapacitate man within a minute from the
pain and distress, and nausea and vomiting
accompanying an exposure of from two to three
minutes to this concentration. These
substances generally used to cause such
sensory irritation that the victim Is unable to
tolerate resprator"
Then the victim tears 1t off and the other
gas with which the region has been soaked,
killing gas gets him.
When the lieutenant commander raised the
question OF teaching the use Of gas masks to
children in the infant schools during the de.