Description: 1915 WW I display newspaper with front-page headline article announcing that the AGE OF CHEMICAL WARFARE BEGINS!! The detailed article reports that Germans Use Mustard Gas for the very first time against BRITISH AND CANADIAN soldiers and the French threaten to retaliate - inv # 1Z-412 SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the Sun (NY) dated April 26, 1915 with phenomenal WW I and Military history!! The displayable front page announces that the AGE OF CHEMICAL WARFARE BEGINS!! The detailed article reports that Germans Use Mustard Gas for the very first time and the FRENCH threaten to retaliate. Displayable WW I history!! Warfare evolves in a terrifying fashion as the German Army uses GAS WARFARE for the 1st time against the British and Canadiens! Mustard agent was first used effectively in World War I by the German army against British and Canadian soldiers near Ypres, Belgium, in 1917 and later also against the French Second Army. The name Yperite comes from its usage by the German army near the town of Ypres. The Allies did not use mustard agent until November 1917 at Cambrai, France, after the armies had captured a stockpile of German mustard-gas shells. It took the British more than a year to develop their own mustard agent weapon, with production of the chemicals centred on Avonmouth Docks.[18][19] (The only option available to the British was the Despretz–Niemann–Guthrie process). This was used first in September 1918 during the breaking of the Hindenburg Line. Mustard agent was dispersed as an aerosol in a mixture with other chemicals, giving it a yellow-brown color and a distinctive odor. Mustard agent has also been dispersed in such munitions as aerial bombs, land mines, mortar rounds, artillery shells, and rockets. Exposure to mustard agent was lethal in about one percent of cases. Its effectiveness was as an incapacitating agent. The early countermeasures against mustard agent were relatively ineffective, since a soldier wearing a gas mask was not protected against absorbing it through his skin and being blistered. Mustard agent is a persistent weapon that remains on the ground for days and weeks, and it continues to cause ill effects. If mustard agent contaminates a soldier's clothing and equipment, then the other soldiers that he comes into contact with are also poisoned. Towards the end of World War I, mustard agent was used in high concentrations as an area-denial weapon that forced troops to abandon heavily-contaminated areas. Since World War I, mustard agent has been used in several wars or other conflicts, usually against people who cannot retaliate in kind: United Kingdom against the Red Army in 1919 Spain and France against the Rifian resistance in Morocco during 1921–27 Italy in Libya during 1930 The Soviet Union in Xinjiang, Republic of China, during the Soviet Invasion of Xinjiang against the 36th Division (National Revolutionary Army) in 1934, and also in the Xinjiang War (1937) during 1936–37 Italy against Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) from 1935 to 1940The Japanese Empire against China during 1937–45Egypt against North Yemen during 1963–67 Iraq against Kurds in the town of Halabja and the Iranians during 1983–88 Possibly in Sudan against insurgents in the civil war, in 1995 and 1997. In the Iraq War, abandoned stockpiles of sulfur mustard shells were destroyed in the open air, and were used against Coalition forces in roadside bombs. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant forces against Kurdish forces in Iraq in August 2015. In 1943, during the Second World War, an American shipment of mustard agent exploded aboard a supply ship that was bombed during an air raid in the harbor of Bari, Italy. Eighty-three of the 628 hospitalized victims who had been exposed to the mustard agent died. The deaths and incident were partially classified for many years. From 1943 to 1944, mustard agent experiments were performed on Australian service volunteers in tropical Queensland, Australia, by British Army and American experimenters, resulting in some severe injuries. One test site, the Brook Islands National Park, was chosen to simulate Pacific islands held by the Imperial Japanese Army. Very good condition. This listing includes the complete entire original newspaper, NOT just a clipping or a page of it. STEPHEN A. 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