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DECLARES "LEWISITE" GAS WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR ARMISTICE

Captain Phillips Presents Astounding Facts of Its Potentiality

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Presenting some astounding facts regarding the potentiality of poison gas in warfare, Captain Thomas Phillips, chemical warfare officer of the First Corps Area of the United States Army, delivered his first lecture before the first year men in the University's R. O. T. C.

"It was the gas 'Lewisite' that was really responsible for the Armistice", said Captain Phillips. The Germans were told that airplanes with ton containers would fly over their cities and wipe out every living thing within the time of a few seconds".

Captain Phillips added that all this was really true and a single drop could lay waste to the country for miles around.

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