Category: History - Modern (1750+)
PAGE The first rumours of German gas attacks--Sceptically received--First attack in 1915--Canadian pluck under gas--Nernst and Haber the inventors of German gas--The difficulties of getting practicable gases--The technic of gas attacks--A German prisoner’s account 9
PAGE The first rumours of German gas attacks--Sceptically received--First attack in 1915--Canadian pluck under gas--Nernst and Haber the inventors of German gas--The difficultie...
2. CHAPTER II3. CHAPTER IIIPopular terror of gas--Necessity for drilling and early personal experience--Sure defence from gas possible--The first gas alarms--The prussic acid scare a myth--The phosgene sc...
4. CHAPTER IVThe attack of Dec. 1915--The Allies’ good training tells--The casualties analysed--The new element of surprise--Evidences of the use of phosgene--The incident of the bulb--Impro...
5. CHAPTER VSummer of 1916 the highwater mark of the German gas cloud--Their improved methods--The need of speed and secrecy--Gas as a rat exterminator--Causes of Allied casualties--Germans...
6. CHAPTER VIThe last German gas cloud sent over August 1916--Its intensity--“Delayed” cases of phosgene gassing--Cigarettes as a test of gassing--Dangers of carelessness--The sprayer abando...
7. CHAPTER VIIThe rising importance of the gas shell--The variety of gases practicable with the shell--The deadly Green Cross Shell--Risks of transporting “duds” for chemical analysis--Reduce...
8. CHAPTER VIIIThe gas-proof dugout--First-aid methods of alarm--Von Buelow improves German gas tactics--Popular errors about gas--Effectiveness of new British respirators--Vomiting gas--Germa...
9. CHAPTER IXMustard or Yellow Cross gas--Not deadly but a dangerous pest--Its troublesome persistence--Cleaning it out by fires--Sneezing of Blue Cross gas--Another pest--Its violent effect...
10. CHAPTER XLiquid fire--First used by Germans in July 1915--A great surprise and success--German hopes from it--Construction of a flame projector--Flammenwerfer companies--Their perilous d...
11. CHAPTER IThe first rumours of German gas attacks--Sceptically received--First attack in 1915--Canadian pluck under gas--Nernst and Haber the inventors of German gas--The difficulties of...
12. CHAPTER IIThere is no need to dwell on the execration with which the use of gas was met by the whole civilised world, and I will merely try to recount how it was taken by the men in the t...
13. CHAPTER IIIPopular terror of gas--Necessity for drilling and early personal experience--Sure defence from gas possible--The first gas alarms--The prussic acid scare a myth--The phosgene sc...
14. CHAPTER IVThe attack of December, 1915--The Allies’ good training tells--The casualties analysed--The new element of surprise--Evidences of the use of phosgene--The incident of the bulb--...
15. CHAPTER VSummer of 1916 the highwater mark of the German gas cloud--Their improved methods--The need of speed and secrecy--Gas as a rat exterminator--Causes of Allied casualties--Germans...
16. CHAPTER VIThe last German gas cloud sent over August, 1916--Its intensity--“Delayed” gases of phosgene gassing--Cigarettes as a test of gassing--Dangers of carelessness--The sprayer aband...
17. CHAPTER VIIThe rising importance of the gas shell--The variety of gases practicable with the shell--The deadly Green Cross Shell--Risks of transporting “duds” for chemical analysis--Reduce...
18. CHAPTER VIIIThe gas-proof dugout--First-aid methods of alarm--Von Buelow improves German gas tactics--Popular errors about gas--Effectiveness of new British respirators--Vomiting gas--Germa...
19. CHAPTER IXMustard or Yellow Cross gas--Not deadly but a dangerous pest--Its troublesome persistence--Cleaning it out by fires--Sneezing or Blue Cross gas--Another pest--Its violent effect...
20. CHAPTER XLiquid Fire--First used by Germans in July, 1915--A great surprise and success--German hopes from it--Construction of a flame projector--Flammenwerfer companies--Their perilous...