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German Atrocity-American Necessity
Villard, H. S. | January 12, 1927 issue

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When on April 22, 1915, the Germans introduced poison gas into modern warfare, an outraged world protested indignantly at such utter ruthlessness. Though in some few quarters development of the "chemists' battle" was regarded as an inevitable step in the progress of scientific warfare, and therefore to be considered philosophically, the opinion of the press was as a whole denunciatory. Many looked upon poison gas as a reversion to barbarism, a violation of every written or unwritten code of combat. The New York Tribune in May 1915 issue says that if poisonous gases can be used in warfare the way is opened to a general relapse to ancient methods of savagery.

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GASES, Asphyxiating & poisonous; MILITARY weapons; PRESS; MILITARY art & science; INTERNATIONAL relations; GERMANY
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