LEAGUE SEEKS TO PREVENT USE OF POISON GASES IN WARFARE
Paris, France (JFK+50) On July 6, 1922, the Disarmament Committee of the League of Nations decided on "an appeal to the world's savants* to evolve means to prevent the devastation caused by the use of poison gases in warfare."
The New York Tribune reports that a committee on intellectual co-operation will be formed by the League. It will include a number of prominent professors, scientists and inventors. The committee is scheduled to begin meetings on August 1st.
*savants are learned persons with detailed knowledge in a specific field
JFK+50 NOTE
On April 22, 1915, Germans fired 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas on the French at Ypres, Belgium. It was the first major gas attack by the Germans in WWI. Afterwards, both Britain & France developed their own chemical weapons along with gas masks.
SOURCES
"Germans introduce poison gas," This Day In History, April 22, www.history.com/
"League Urges Savants To Bar Poison Gases," The New York Tribune, July 7, 1922, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
