The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . les,was realized and poisonous gas was made one of the German weapons of Hun, through years of experiments,already had reduced its use to an exactscience and the first few weeks it was putinto use the Allied forces suffered inventive genius arose to the occasionand within a week the first gas masks werebeing tried out in the trenches. Then thewomen of the allied nations made a su-preme effort and within a short time thetroops in the very front line trenches weresafeguarded against the m
The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . les,was realized and poisonous gas was made one of the German weapons of Hun, through years of experiments,already had reduced its use to an exactscience and the first few weeks it was putinto use the Allied forces suffered inventive genius arose to the occasionand within a week the first gas masks werebeing tried out in the trenches. Then thewomen of the allied nations made a su-preme effort and within a short time thetroops in the very front line trenches weresafeguarded against the most recent Ger-man ruthlessness. After a short time ofembittered protests to the civilized world,the Allies were forced to meet cruelty withcruelty and they too took up tlie use of thegas shell. Since that time, the Germans have per-fected further the science of gas fighting,using now shells containing mustard gasand a compound wliicli affects the laeliry-mal glands and blinds tliose who come intocontact with it. But the gas of the Ypresdavs was made from chlorine and its effect. Battalion of Death Made Up of Russian Women. HISTORY OF THE WAR 67
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