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developments in technique and destructive 

 force that would have delighted Nisroch, 

 who first invented aerial ''machinations 

 to plague the sons of men." A group of 

 medical men representing the chief univer- 

 sities and medical bodies of the United 

 Kingdom was innocent enough to suggest 

 that such an unclean weapon — the use of 

 lethal gases, "condemning its victims to 

 death by long-drawn-out torture," and 

 with infinite possibilities for its further de- 

 velopment — should be forever abolished. 

 4 ' Steeped in folly by theories and prepos- 

 sessions," failure to read the "lessons of 

 war which should have sufficed to con- 

 vince a beetle" — such were among the 

 newspaper comments ; and in other ways 

 we were given to understand that our inter- 

 ference in such matters was most untimely. 

 All the same, it is gratifying to see that the 

 suggestion has been adopted at the Peace 

 Congress. 



