Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
Next Conflict Seen Destined
7oBe Total With No Mercy
None to Be Mont ombutonts in War
For Complete AnnihIution

sity knows no law" will be enforced
to the utmost limit
The most sinister means of COM
bat will be the poison gases of which
about 80 varieties were used in the
World War, and will in all proba-
bility be used again.
They fall into our groups:
l. Lung tissue destroying gases
such as phosgene, chloric, picric
gases.
2. Arsenic group (blue cross,
LeWisite, etc..
3. Mustard gas group yellow
cross, yperite).
4. Tear gas group (bromacetone,
chloroacetonphenone).
Gen. Schwartz believes in the
possibility that surprises may be
sprung on shuddering world in the
matter of new gases that will pene-
trate all hitherto known gas masks.
ut would be an utter delusion to
believe that any state capable of
producing poison gas will refrain
from making and using it. no mat
ter what previous agreements have
been made to the contrary" he de-
clares.
Death Rays Held Useless.
The writer specifically rejects as
impracticable the so-called death
rays" capable OF destruction at
long range-ultra-v violet, ultra short
waves or by whatever name they
may be called.
THE most competent authorities
do not admit they are a workable
proposition" he asserts, "at least,
not in the immediate future"
Neither does he believe in any So
called harmless" gases with only
soporific powers.
There is no positive evidence of
their effectiveness" he states.
The man behind the gun will be,
as ever, the decisive factor in bat
tie" Gen. Schwartz holds.
The most technically perfect
weapon will fail if not served by
strong men willing to stake their
lives. under energetic purposeful
leadership of nation which is de-
termined to fight for its existence. :"
"Limes" Held Improbable.
Nazi orators and military writer's
meanwhile proclaim triumphantly
that Germanys Lines" the fortifi-
cation line on the west running ap-
proXimately $50 miles from the
Netherlands border to the Swiss
frontier, is impregnable and will bar
any attempt at invasion from the
west.
Any attempt to outfank it would
involve the neutrality of the Neither
lands and Switzerland.
Military leaders assert the World
War defense line was a child's toy
compared with the formidable new
defense works erected at Adolf
Hitlers behest.
The system consists of three or
four lines from Is to 30 miles deep
with no less than 1900 separate
steel and concrete posts. emplace-
ments and machine-gun pillboxes so
camouflaged as to escape aerial de-
lection.
"Tombstones for Tanks"
There are what are called tomb
stones for tanks of concrete
blocks sticking out of the earth at
strategic points like gigantic canine
teeth. Germans assert no tanks will
be able to pass them.
Complete features of the new line
are a secret but Maj. Gen. SPEECH,
inspector of Notifications, gave an
lnkling of what was to be expected
should an enemy force attempt to
break through in a swift surprise
movement.
Writing in the Berliner Lokalan-
zeiger, he described how long-range
artillery and airplane bombs would
destroy the enemy back of the lines
Systematically while the foes at
lacking forces would be exposed to
fire from all directions from hidden
batteries.
Should the enemy nevertheless
decide to make an infantry attack"
he wrote, "storming parties would
be wiped out by hurricane of fire
long before reaching the last line of
traps and barriers"