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MUita I (? SEPTEMBE,?opsTEAR GAS BOMBS ARESENT TO TROOPS HEREfii!i1 he j Shipped From Edgewood, Md ’h' Yesterday; Would Breaklvi»# * Up Miners Quick1 yions \con-ades! Telegraph to the Daily Mail( WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—Two hun-andj^relt;* airplane bombs were among the vere I army supplies shipped to Mingo. West■w m * mrainnin*^ irginia yesterday. These bombs wereTilled with tear'' gas and when theirtthe contents reach the vicinity of any-the | body of men they will be so busy wip- j1 atpnS the lachrymal exudations from re- their optics that they will have no time for anything else. Forty news- !paper correspondents and members oftheir families had a demonstration ofmo-outreV,tin - vthis gas this afternoon. They wereipater -ing.Isitors to the plant, of the chemical) warfare division of the army. It is located at Rdgewood, about twentv-»een I bvc miles north of Baltimore. As lem the party approached the building in'dal | which the tear gas was being pre-awn! pared for shipment thev were like*George Porgy in the nursery rhyrn they began to cry, and they kept it upfor half an hour. And this withouticrelgeriber j *ny Intentions to introduce the party j thejtc the gas. It was simply a demon-j wasstration without intent. This new j means of ‘ quelling” a mob will enable '►opsher the army airmen to set every strikerr ofjin the Kentucky mountains weeping j by [for an Indefinite period. General Bandholtz’s forces also have supplies an- I of other gasses which are far more 1 yol-; unpleasant and much more dangerous j andintoim-aid.pis-ionthan that which was tested today. Ttj is the opinion of the officers of the fchemical warfare section of the war *idepartment that a “barrage” of the milders gas. properly laid will break ! up the insurrection and that after re-«. J covery the naughty boys of the hills jfort . Itish -andonelesill go home with no more damage than a great many wet handkerchiefs, 'if they carry Ruch articles.ISOVIET PRISONERS
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Charleston Daily Mail
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Sun, Sep 04, 1921
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