Abstract
THE use of ‘gas’ in war has been defended by several British and American writers on the ground that it is less inhumane than bullets and high explosives. It is pointed out that in the last years of the War, only about 3 per cent of the gas casualties of the Allies died, and the great bulk of the remaining 97 per cent made complete recoveries in a short time. General Foulkes advocates it on quite other grounds: if properly applied, he says, it causes far more casualties than any other arm, and the deaths amount to 20-40 per cent of the casualties. Consequently it offers the best means of ending a war that is settling down to a condition of protracted siege.
“Gas!”: the Story of the Special Brigade.
By Major-General C. H. Foulkes. Pp. xv + 361 + 16 plates. (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, Ltd., 1934.) 30s. net.
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MARSHALL, A. War by Poison . Nature 134, 952–953 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134952a0
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