Gas Is No Respecter of Persons 



An infernal machine of the 

 trenches. This small cylinder, 

 when filled with the proper 

 chemicals, will manufacture 

 enough asphyxiating gas to kill 

 hundreds of men. It is one of 

 the many which are used by the 

 Austrians in overcoming the 

 enemy's forces before .an attack 



The children of towns on the firing line may meet gas at any moment on their way through 

 the streets. Here are seen school children of Rheims lined up for the inspection of their 

 gas helmets. So many gas attacks are launched in the immediate neighborhood of this 

 vmfortunate French city that no one is safe in the streets without a gas mask ready for 

 immediate use. The school children are required by their teachers to carry a helmet, and 

 if upon inspection the masks are found faulty or missing, the offending pupils are punished. 

 Below is a French mother adjusting her daughter's gas mask before she leaves the home 



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