Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1918 — AMERICAN GAS MASKS BEST [ARTICLE]

AMERICAN GAS MASKS BEST

Takes Only Six Seconds to Put It on and It Is Gas and Fool Proof. Chicago.—When it comes to fighting gas attacks the American soldier is the best equipped in the world. This is the declaration made here by Maj. J. J. Auld, chief advisor of the British scientific mission, who is a chemical expert. He said that the German command has become so enraged at the failure of its high-powered gases to discomfit the Americans that they have offered a reward of ten marks to any soldier who brings in an Americat gas mask. “The American mask Is the marvel of the allied armies,” says Majoi Auld. "It is absolutely gas proof and fool proof. It takes only about six seconds to put it bn. Unlike the German mask it does not hang down and get in his way when one bends over.”