Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 337, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 May 1927 — Page 10

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FRANCE TO MEET NEXT WAR WITH GIGANTIC DEFENSE / x All-Inclusive Mobilization Feature of Plan Laid Before Nation. Bu I nUnl Prraa PARIS, May 6. —If France Is ever again attacked, the entire resources of the nation, man-poWer, industrial organization, inventive genius and capital invested in industry, will be mobilized, acfcording to the new scheme of defense of which the basic principles have been adopted by parliament. ‘‘Man-power," be At noted, means in this sense, “every 'French citizen irrespective of sex.” Women will their part in the next war. This, is a corrollary of the new idea that when a nation is at war all its citizens are at war with all the citizens of the enemy power. Technically, there will be no noncombatants, except in the sense that some .will bo armed with destructive weapons. The others will be sup* plying the needs of the men on the lighting line. Scheme Outlined What about the profiteers? To tills question, which was asked many times during the preliminafy discussions of the great plan of national defense, Paul Boncour, the Socialist orator, who was reporter of the project which was adopted by the Chamber of Deputies i& an overwhelming vote, replied: “Every member of the committee named to study this problem was convinced that there could be no greater injustices than to order a woman to take her place in a hos-pital.-An a dispensary, in the fields, to take the place of a man called to the front; to demand of an inventor that he give the fruit of his labors to the state; to ask all men capable of carrying arms to go to the front, and then exempt one class only—those who possess that special form of wealth known as industrial capital. Tn this plan of defense we agreed—and as faf as I know this is the first time it has been done in any country—that shall be no profits except the legitimate profits on orders executed for of tho state.” • Prices to Be Fixed How is this to be accomplished? By the mere fact that the government, through its “prefect” or departmental representatives, will fix the prices of till tilings needed for . the military forces of the nation, will design the factories from which they are to be supplied and in what quantity. There will be no competition. There will be no bids. The government authority will say to a certain factory: “The nation needs a million trucks, or two million overcoats, or ten million gas masks, or

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a hundred thousand tanks. You are to produce so many at such a date, at such a price. If you don't deliver you will have to tell us why.” An important point to remember is that this new scheme of defense is not to come into play until France

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ernment bureaus each one of which will have a specific task—to see to It that in the eventuality of war there will be no delay in putting into effect the provisions of the law. In the vast scheme of national defense which the French military authorities, in collaboration with the government, are working out, there is, one detail which finds no place in the plan submitted to parliament but which none the less constitutes one of its most important features. It problem of defense against barbarous methods of warfare. All Methods Considered .France not propose to resort to such methods, but in the opinion of her keenest military mind it would be criminal not to study and follow the development of every method of warfare, legitimate or not, which might be used against the country by an unscrupulous foe. France was taken unawares when the first waves of poison gas swept over the Franco-British forces near Ypres. She does not intend to be caught napping again. But she is not telling anybody about her R|ans. Secrecy and surprise, are, of codvse, essential features both of att?4ek and defense in this respect. Without attempting to delve into the researches of the army experts it may be stated that the foundation of the whole system of defense against barbarous methods of war-

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fare is the building up of a chemical industry which can be transformed at a moment's notice from peace time industry to a war organization. When the allies in the great war by tfneans of their blockade cut off from Germany her supply of nitrates from Chilie, the central powers could ‘not have continued the war six months longer had it not been for the genius of the German chemists, who started making nitric acid, indispensable in modern explosives warfare, synthetically. The keynote of the new French defence plan, as far as chemical warfare Is concerned, is to develop the chemical industry to such a point that, if war comes, there will be factories, competent technicians and personal

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I sufficient to transform the Industry into a military machine and supply the armies whatever barbarous methods the enemy may use. Seven Gases Used In the great war there wtere seven principal gases utilized in dttack. A suffocating chlorine compound was let loose on the allied lines by the Germans and was later used by the allies. Another suffocating gas, oxychloride or carbon, was also used by 1 both sides. The allies -used it in 1 waves and in shell. • The Germans I used it only for waves. The Ger- | mans used liquid diphosgene, whose effect was also on the respiratory ' organs. Tife Germans, too, were j alone in utilizing a poison gas, j cyanhydric acid, which they placed in shell. They invented another

weapon, a burning liquid known as ipwrite, a compound of ethyl bichloride. Then there were the famous tear gas and the sneeze gas. What diaboliqal contrivances will be brought to perfection by the time —. •

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the next conflict rages over lOurope? The French experts have com® to the conclusion that the only way to counteract them, whatever they may be, is to study every possible eomI bination and be ready with an [ antidote.