Evening Star Newspaper, December 8, 1926, Page 16

VETERANS UPHOLD CHEMICALS IN WAR Legion Advises Senate of Un- . alterable Protest Over [ Geneva Protocol. The American Legion, through John | Thomas Taylor, vice chairman of the national legislative committec of the | veteran organization, has notified the Senate that it stands unalterably op- posed to the Geneva poison gas proto- <ol, which will come before the Senate for action at this session. The protest took the form of a per- | sonal letter to every member of the Benate, accompanied by copies of the Legion's pamphlet, “The T the .Geneva Gas Protocol, resolution against ratification adopted at the -national -convention of the Legion in Omaha, in 1925, and Phila; delphia, in 1926. Deprecates Handicap. Mr. Taylor told the Senators that the Legion expresses again its con- tinued interest in the proper develop- ment of the Army’'s chemical velopment and usefulness of America’'s national defense. protocol in question would eliminate c| to Congress urged favorable action by international agreement the use of chemicals in warfare. Mr. Taylor pointed out that mot all nations have signed the protocol, and that the others have not ratified it. He said every veteran of the World War learned the lesson, too, that when the national unity of a nation is threatened, that nation makes use of every effective weapon at its com- mand regardless of agreements to | the contrary. He added that the conse- quences might be “fearful” to unpre- pared America. Statistics Are Quoted. l'l"he writer cited statistics to show that who E those \\lm were engulfed by gas. The Assoclation of Military Surgeons, he ded, at their meeting last October, opted a resolution opposing ratifica- m of the protocol and declaring | that “the use of poisonous gas in war is more humane and less destructive of human life than other methods.” SAYS LEGION WILL FIGHT. Commander Lists Gas Protocol and Welsh Bill for Defeat. By the Associated Press. KENOSHA, Wis., December 8 (). —Tho American Legion will strong- ly oppose congressional action to eliminate poison gas in future wars and military training in land grant colleges, National Commander Hows ard- W.'Savage, last night told Wis- consin and Illinois Legionnaires. Defeat of the Geneva gas protocol and the Welsh bill abolishing mili- tary training in certain .land grant ges fs a part of the Legion's ssional program. Comdr. 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We will seek the passage of the universal draft bill and the measure for additional hospital con- struction.” Strengthening of the national de- fense act is desired by the Legion, Mr. Savage declared. T R N Turkish Province Bans Veils. CONSTANTINOPLE, December 8 (#).—Women’s veils, which even An- fora let alon a year ago, when it prohibited the traditional Turkish fez, have been suppressed by the Province of Trebizond, long regarded as one of the bulwarks of the old regime. Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink, the empress dowager, of contral and Dr. Walter Damrosch, dean the conductors of American sym- phony orchestras, were given one per- sonal ovation after another in their appearance with the New York Sym- hony Orchestra yesterday afternoon. t was an all-Wagner program. 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