Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1917 — POISON GAS NOT CHLORINE [ARTICLE]

POISON GAS NOT CHLORINE

Substance Alone Could Never Cause Agohyahdlnterhalln jUrtesßeported From France. Pittsburgh, Pa.—Chlorine is not the substance from which poison gases is made on the European battlefronts, according to a paper read before the American Electrochemical society convention by Willlam-D.Jlarehan7 a delegate. “During the first year of the war,”

Mr. Marshal said, “reports from abroad frequently reached this side to the effect that chlorine was used in the form of gas attacks, releasing it from cylinders, or containers, against the position of the enemy, My own experience with chlorine, as well as what I have heard from others On the subject, leads me to believe that it alone could never, have caused such agony and Internal injuries as were described, because in my practice I have never seen nor heard of anybody permanently Injured by inhaling chlorine, although the temporary Inconveniences and pain caused by it seemed at times rather serious.” » Rather than perform a deadly mission Mr. Marshall said that chlorine had lent Itself for war purposes in sanitation, sterilization of wounds, etc.