General Waite Warns Germans May Use Gas

Emphasizing the importance of the airplane in modern chemical warfare, Brigadier General Alden H. Waite, officer of the Chemical Warfare Service and outstanding authority on gas attack, also stressed the imminent possibilities of future attack with poison chemicals before a large audience at the Mallinckrodt Laboratories last night. The address was sponsored by Alpha Chi Sigma, chemical fraternity.

He began with an outline of the history of the last-growing branch of modern war, citing incidents in the first war when, gas might have turned the tide. Today all the nations of the Axis have enormous chemical plants ready for any attack or defense, he said.

"Make no mistake," said Waite, "they will not fail to use gas when their need is great enough." He added, however, that America is ready for such attack and already has sufficient anti-gas equipment to stave off any but the most ferocious gas offenses which the Axis could muster.