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‘SEEKS TO BOMBARD
CITY WITH TEAR GAS’

‘Would Convince Public of
Humanity and Efficiency
Of Gas Warfare’

‘Report Only 2 Percent of Gas
Casualties During World
War Resulted Fatally’

“State College, Pa. (Jul. 6) – AP – Bombardment of some city of 10,000 population with tear gas as a means of convincing the public of the humanity and effectiveness of gas warfare, was suggested tonight by Dr. Harry N. Holmes, professor of chemistry at Oberlin College, Ohio, in an address before the Institute of Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.

“Dr. Holmes declared that gas warfare, though brutal like all warfare is really less brutal than other forms of fighting.

“As proof that the general feeling that gas warfare is ‘devilish, brutal and should be abolished,’ is erroneous Dr. Holmes said that the Surgeon General of the United States reports that in the American army during the World War, 24% of all the casualties caused from wounds and other agencies than gas died, while only 2 percent of the gas casualties resulted fatally.”

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