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U. S. OFFICER
INVESTIGATES
GASES
PARIS. July 8. — (Correspondence
of the Associated Press.) — Colonel
Spencer Cosby, United States military
attche at Paris, has been speaking In
a hoarse whisper of IntV Ills friends
have noted it and have expressed their
regrets at his very bad cold. Colonel
Cosby's voice has not permited him
to jpply, and he has let It go at that
—a coldc But It was not a cold.
The use which the German army
has made of poison gas In the present
war has brought a new and terrible
element of destruction into military
sc ience. Just what this terrible new
agency Is, what part it plays in the
offensive and defensive taetics, and to
what extent, if any, It must he reck
oned with as a permanent element In
future warfare— these are problems
which the military experts throughout
the world are trying to determine.
Hero in France where the poison gas
has been used with most deadly effect
| in Champagne, Argonne and all along
the fighting line, its ravages have been
I particularly apparent, and the mili
tary attaches of many countries have
hern active in scouring data for their
governments on this new ageney.
Colonel Cosby shared the keen In
torost of his brother military investi
gators and in one respect he went far
j beyond them. There w as ample data,
' from tlie battlefields and the hospi
I tals, where ghastly patients were a 11 v
' ing witness of the effects of the new
element. But Colonel Coshy deter
mined on a direct personal investiga
tion on the element itself — the poi
son gas in all its forms — just as a
medical scientist lias at times put
some new serum to the supreme test
> /it uuur" ii.
"But you should ho warned of the
extreme risk," said the chief chemist.
“It is very dangerous—a matter of life
and death.”
Vet against the warning was the
feeling that a mysterious agency of
warfare needed to be explored to its
very end. And so the word was given
to go ahead and* the official wheels
turned swiftly in bringing together all
sorts of gas, fresh and powerful, from
the nearby fighting fronts.
The facilities for such a test of the
gases were not easily obtained. But
these were at last secured, and the
American military attache was the
first and only one to be granted these
exceptional facilities. With these pre
liminaries arranged. Colonel Cosby
found himself in the presence of a
long line of bottles, ranged on shelves,
much as in a chemist's shop. Sur
geons and white garbed attendants
and chemical experts w ere about, with i
pestle and mortar, vacuum pumps and
airtight ;'ars, making experiments and
tests of gases and antidotes. Nearby
hung a line of gas masks, with gapin <
j eye-holes., used to counteract the poi '
sonous fumes.
I lie large Dome coiuameu me vai i-,
oi;s forms of liquid gas, direct from
the from, and in varying degrees ci
strength. Most of them showed a
volatile yellowish liquid which, on be-;
ing exposed to the air gave off the
deadly gases which have wrought such
havoc. There were three distinct j
groups of these: first, those bursting
into flame and commonly known as j
liquid flame; second, the tear-produc-1
ing gases, which do not kill or perma-:
nently maim, but which so blind a.
column of rushing trops that they be-;
come helpless and are brought to aj
halt; and, third, the actual poison-gas,
which suffocates and kills with ten
times the horror of a bullet or shell. ]
This last, it is the belief of military]
experts, is a barbarism of warfare,
| which must be ultimately bailed by the
j universal sentiment of civilization, j
■ But they are equally of the belief that
j the lesser forms of gas — which do
j not kill but merely interrupt the for-.
■ ward progress of an attack — are a;
permanent element of defensive mili
tary strategy which must be taken in-(
to consideration in future warfare.
“This Is the least deadly,” explained
the chief chemist, as he presented one
of the bottle containing the inflamma
tory gas. He drew the glass stopper j
very cautiously, and Colonel Cosby
took ti slight whiff of the gas. It was
not overpowering or violent in its ef
fects — only a pungent odor of ether.
Now the second class of gases were
reached — the tear producing gases—
and these, too, were tested in' the same
way. These also were not overpower
ing, but gave the same sharp odor of
ether and a perceptible effect on the
eyes. Colonel Cosby was beginning to
think the gases were not so very bad
after all.
They had now reached the poison
gas — the deadly gas which clutches
und kills. The chemist paused.
“You will not try this," he said ap
pealingly.
"Yes, all of them," said the colonel
positively, recalling the rather agree- '
able pungent odor of the other gases, j
"Then we must be very cautious," j
said the chemist. "Place yourself i
about a foot away from the bottle. I *
will raise the glass stopper the *
slightest possible fraction of an Inch, j
so that only an insignificant portion! i
of gas can escape — but It will be
enough. Now, ready."
He drew the stopper the slightest
particle, and only for an Instant, with
Colonel Cosby a foot away. Tint In
that Instant the colonel felt he had
been hurled hack twenty feet. Tongues
of fire were eating at his throat, and
: I
ten thousand needles were darting
I around ills neck. It seemed ns though
j live vitrlor had been emptied in his
j mouth and was coursing through his
veins. Ills whole vocal system was
paralyzed. This inflnltesmlnl portion |
of the deadly gas had. In an instant, ’
overpowered him.
It was some little time before Col- j
onel Cosby was In a position to discuss j
his tests. The chiof chemist said the
effect would continue some hours and
probably rcma days. It would he most
observable, he said, in ealing and
drinking.
Colonel Cosbv took an auto home,
his throat still on fire, but not other
wise physically affected. That night
every mouthful of dinner had the un
mistakahle taste of the poison gaw; 1
each draught of water had the same j
taste of the deadly gas; an deven the ]
puffs of a cigar had the taste of so
puffs of this death dealing gas — al- ,
ways the ffery needles and so many >
draughts of vitriol. Colonel Cosby
could speak to his family only in in
articulate whispers. They were natu
rally concerned over the possible af
ter effects.
When Colonel Cosh ysaw a doctor j
the neyt day the throat was found to !
he in a very bad condition, as from
an acute attack of laryngitis. The
colonel continued on his duties, but i
for a week he could speak only in j
whispers. It was ten days before the
clutch of the poison gas on the throat j
hail been relaxed enough to let him
speak again in ful lvoice.
"Thrt's a bad case of laryngitis,”
said the Russian ambassador.
"Yes." whispered Colonel Cosby, “an
acute form, recently discovered by
German scientists — a form that
kills.”
SUSITNA RIVER CLAIMS
ANOTHER VICTIM.
_
ANCHORAGE, July 5. — Fred Lo-'
per, who has a piling contract with,
the commission on the little Susitna
river, brought in the body of a 12-1
year-old Indian maiden yesterday that ^
he found on Susitna flats. The body j
was badly decomposed and was j
buried as soon as the coroner's in-^
quest was finished. The verdict was t
that the young maiden had met death (
by accidental drowning, presumably
further up the river and flonted down .
when the ice broke up this spring, as
she showed evidence of having been in
the water for at least two months.
So far there are no traces of vela-j ^
fives or connections, but it is under
stood that some members of her tribe, |
the Matanuska Indians, will be down
today, who may be able to explain
r,:oro about the case. There was no
evidence of foul play or suspicions of
any character connected with the
case.—Times.
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THIRD BeST COTTON CROP.
WASHINGTON, July 18. — High
prices of cotton and cotton seed has
encouraged farmers in Uie cotton bolt
to increase their acreage this year
substantially over last year’s area, re- .
suiting in a total of 35,994,000 acres,
according to the official estimate of
the department of agriculture, an
nounced today.
The condition of the crop — 81.1
per cent of normal on June 25 — in
dicates that the total production of
lint this year will be about 14,266,000
equivalent 500-pound bales, the bureau
Of crop estimates calculates. That
yield would place this year's crop tho
third largest ever known, only those
of 1911 and 1914 being larger.
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According to a British scientist,
weight for weight, macaroni is as valu
able a flesh building food as beef or
mutton.
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