There are also facts pointing to the use in German shells of other
irritant substances, though in some cases at least these agents are not
of the same brutally barbarous character as the gas used in the attack
on the Canadians. The effects are not those of any of the ordinary
products of combustion of explosives. On this point the symptoms
described left not the slightest doubt in my mind.
Professor H.B. Baker, F.R.S., who accompanied me, is making further
inquiries from the chemical side.
I am, my Lord, your obedient servant,
J.S. HALDANE.
_The following announcement was issued by the British War Office on
April 29, 1915:_
Thanks to the magnificent response already made to the appeal in the
press for respirators for the troops, the War Office is in a position to
announce that no further respirators need be made.
THE "EYEWITNESS" STORY.
_The following descriptive account was communicated by the British
Official Eyewitness present with General Headquarters, supplementing his
continuous narrative of the movements of the British force and the
French armies in immediate touch with it:_
April 27, 1915.
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