Speaker Says No Known Type Will Wipe Out Existence 'While there are many types that will "inflict' enormous casualties through their "deadly power, the most effective poison gas has not yet been discovered, "according to Mr. Wilfred 8. B, Wong, director of the American Engineering Corporation of China, and factory representative of Federal Laboratories, Inc, U.S.A who spoke on "A clviilan's' conception of the next war" at the weekly meeting of the Shanghai Rotary Club, held on Aug. 28 at the Metropole Hotel.
Mr, Wong said that while military preparation. was in progress, people Sught to find out something about It, and uso their Influence with thelt respective governments to end the mad armament scare, Interwoven with war by land, alr' and sea was chemical warfare,' and lastly' there was bacterial. wai There was relatively little development in the military Meld as compared with the Sensational development in the Sselence of aerial warfare. There had, however, been improvements. artillery, hand grenades, long dis tance guns, kickless. machine-guns, and amphibian and rapid-moving {anks, which travel 40 miles an hour over country and 60 miles an hour onthe road.
"The development most interesting to the layman, however, was that comprised the. bomber, the pursuit, plane, the fighting plane amd tha observation or scouting plane, Every passenger "plane was. potentially a jamber, Just as every merchant ves~ I was potentially a.warship. The pursuit' was the fastest type of, mille {ary plane, while the Aghting plane was used principally against infantry and (transport columns, This was the type of plane that was used for duels in the air, and provided the Fomance and adventure of fighting. in the air during the last war, "Any for observing troop mov. distributing: propaganda materia!
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