Evening star., 1928-06-01

we use them for protecting wood from
marine borers, 70 kill injurious insects.
TO protect bank vaults, 70 diSlodge bar
ricaded desperadoes and 70 cure colds.
Instead of curse TO humanity, war
gases have proved real boon Their
adaptation Is another example of mans
ability to translate catastrophes into
blessings" The Times denies thar air
planes loaded with gas bombs can de-
vastate large city"
The BIuefeld Daily Telegraph lccks
another accident IN industry" and i.
explains. in response to criticisms, that
the Interallied Military Commission
had authorized three German firms 70
manufacture phosgene for industrial
purposes" The method employed how
ever, leads the New York Herald
Tribune 70 remark: Chemists insist
on two invariable rules Of safety. One
is TO use and store these compounds
only in small quantities. virtually harHn-
less II accidentally released The other
is never to conduct such operations in
centers OF population The mistake
at Hamburg seems to have been that
both these rules were disregarded
The possibilities of gas warfare are
brought home to the world by this
accident. 1t is a powerful. argument
for peace" states the Santa Barbara
Daily News. and the Chattanooga News
holds that when one considers the
awful toll OF war in the past, and the
still more terrible toll it will exact In
the future. 1t seems impossible that ma
tions could deliberately go 10 war over
any excuse" The Toledo Blade ex-
claims: There must not be a chem
ical war. II is inhuman. Thought OF
it Is terrifying However remote such
war. the possibility of the plague
should strengthen all honest work on
behalf OF peace" The Syracuse Herald
predicts renewed demand Tor strict
outlawry Of use or manufacture Of 81
such gases"
The jlngoes may be right" says The
Toronto Star, but II they are man
when the evidence OF the utter destrlic-
tion that will fall upon great centerS
of civilization is so plainly before
them" The Louisville Times believes
that noisy braves who, hitherto. have
been willing TO incur the risk quite gal
lantly. counting. perhaps. on the sup
posed security OF great cities and other
positions we'll behind the lines, may be
expected 10 change their tune" The
Huntington Advertiser suggests that ssf
the people. the statesmen, and especial
y the 1ingoes. Of the world can See
the Hamburg tragedy In its true light,
those victims viii not nave died In
vain"
III IL will cause statesmen 70 work
biz faster to secure International
agreements that will onviate war, and
II they will indulge somewhat less IN
pretty phrases" the Cleveland News
concludes an important lesson has been
taught, and the Manchester Union Is
OF the same opinion, The Albany Eve-
ming News looks. upon .'ths deadliness
OF this gas" As possibly a powerful
Daily Eagle AYERS. Something Of the
horror for which every nation is
e,lSily preparing Is evident from the
Hamburg episode"
The Boston Transeript offers the
comment; Perhaps the calamity has
helped toward the cause OF peace ey
affording practical example. in time
Of general good VIII, OF the horror
which such an agency OF destruction
tnfiictx. But though this object lesson
may be influential. the occurrence does
not 1T all Affect the argument. which
seems 20 be coEent one. that poison
Gas, IN war, may be q more naerelsul.
because a more Instantly etfieacious,
means OF putting an enemy 10 night
than the homhshell The gas expert
ence Is recovered from Il recovered
from at all. more readily than shell
shock, and 1t does not MAIN and man
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