A Higher Form of Killing (56 page)

 
“As to . . . need be.”: Ibid., pp. 49 and 111.

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN—“DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT GAS?”

 
“All night . . . disease.”: Lieut. P. W. James quoted W. Moore,
Gas Attack!
, p. 52.

 
“men lying . . . dying . . . nothing . . . thing.”: Ibid., pp. 52–53.

 
“His Majesty’s . . . practice.”: Parliamentary Debates, Lords, vol. 18 (1915) cols. 1017–18.

 
“public opinion . . . retaliate.”: War Cabinet Meeting, November 16, 1932, 14, CAB 23/73.

 
““Do you . . . to do”: C. Foulkes,
Gas! The Story of the Special Brigade
, p. 17.

 
“which were . . . things.”: C. Foulkes, op. cit., p, 20.

 
“the production . . . clouds.”: C. Foulkes, op. cit., p. 39.

 
“were told . . . advanced.”: Lieut. C. A. Ashley, IWM/(D)/3609.

 
“an attack . . . gas.”: Ibid.

 
“I gave . . . wished.”: C. Foulkes, op. cit., p. 57.

 
“did not . . . explosives.”: Lieut. C. A. Ashley, IWM/(D)/3609.

 
“were to . . . infantry.”: Ibid.

 
“I was . . . smoke.”: Carey/ IWM/(D)/4050.

 
“as the conditions . . . permitted.”: C. Foulkes, op. cit., p. 64.

 
“oojahs”: Harris and Paxman,
A Higher Form of Killing
, p. 11.

 
“did . . . carrying.”: Lieut. C. A. Ashley, IWM(D) 3609.

 
“walked . . . chess.”: Ibid.

 
“At one . . . troops!”: Haig’s Diary,
Private Papers of Douglas Haig
, p. 104.

 
“after the . . . started . . . We were . . . behind it.”: Ibid.

 
“the men . . . chemicals”: Ibid.

 
“one man . . . at them.”: Lieut. C. A. Ashley, IWM/(D)/3609.

“great . . . leaks . . . slowly . . . rain) . . . at about . . . used.”: Lieut. A. B. White, quoted Macdonald,
1915
, pp. 502–3.

 
“the gas . . . lines.”: Quoted Harris and Paxman,
A Higher Form of Killing
, p. 14.

 
“blue . . . death.”: Ibid., p. 15.

 
“met with . . . units.”: Quoted K. Coleman,
A History of Chemical Warfare
, p. 24.

 
“Behind . . . devils.”: C. Foulkes, op. cit., p. 80.

 
“The artillery . . . success.”: Lieut. C. A. Ashley, IWM/(D)/3609.

 
“gas . . . mouldy.”: Sgt. F. M. Packham quoted Macdonald,
1915
, p. 507.

CHAPTER NINETEEN—“ZEPP AND A PORTION OF CLOUDS”

 
“I was . . . Palace.”: Quoted H. G. Castle,
Fire over England
, p. 91.

 
“thing . . . night.”: Quoted I. Castle,
London 1914
–
1917
, p. 42.

 
“during . . . potatoes.”: G. Davies, IWM/1(D)/15933 (Collection of letters).

 
“as pretty . . . done it.”: Quoted H. G. Castle,
Fire over England
, pp. 91–92.

 
“indescribably . . . below.”: Breithaupt’s account,
Living Age
, January 1928. quoted I. Castle,
London 1914
–
17
, p. 44.

 
“right . . . another.”: Quoted I. Castle,
London 1914
–
17
, p. 42.

 
Slessor later became Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Slessor.

 
“The lights . . . London . . . streams . . . myself.”: J. Slessor,
The Central Blue
, pp. 12–13.

 
“handsome . . . trains.”:
London Society
, 1882.

 
“seem to . . . population.”: C. G. Lawson/IWM/(D)/7834.

 
“The kind . . . stop . . . all knew . . . vengeance . . . a declared . . . cities . . . a fleet . . . warfare . . . roughly . . . ejected . . . Let us . . . Christianity”:
Guardian
, October 15, 1915.

 
“Have . . . aircraft . . . Is the . . . streets?”:
Hansard
for these and related PQs.

 
“I must . . . red-tapism.”: Scott’s minute of October 18, 1915, quoted H. G. Castle,
Fire over England
, p. 95.

CHAPTER TWENTY—“REMEMBER THE LUSITANIA”

 
“I realise . . . anyone.”: Quoted M. Gilbert,
The First World War
, p. 202.

 
“Her execution . . . civilisation.”: Quoted on
www.heritage-history.com
, “
Frightfulness.
”

 
“to keep . . . forget.”: Quoted in Bailey and Ryan,
The Lusitania Disaster
, p. 267.

 
“What did . . . surprise”: Quoted Macmillan,
Peacemakers
, p. 16.

“Would the . . . war?”: Seymour,
The Intimate Papers of Colonel House
, vol. 2, p. 88.

 
“profound regret . . . a suitable indemnity.”: The third and final German note is contained in C. Savage,
Policy of the United States Toward Maritime Commerce in War
, pp. 458–59.

 
“note after note . . . action.”: Quoted in Richard,
A Companion to Theodore Roosevelt
, p. 477.

 
“every German . . . doing.”: Defense attaché’s report of May 18, 1915, archives of the U.S. Naval War College.

 
“indescribable . . . uniform.”: Blucher,
An English Wife in Berlin
, pp. 120–21.

 
“Dear Old Tirps . . . Cheer . . . freezes.”: Fisher’s consoling letter was written on March 29 ,1916, and is reprinted in his
Memories
, p. 31.

 
“the Government . . . relations.”: Quoted Bell,
A History of the Blockade of the Central Empires
, p. 594.

 
“impertinence”: Quoted Massie,
Castles of Steel
, p. 551.

 
“no longer . . . law.”: Gerard,
My Four Years in Germany
, p. 246.

 
Wilfred Owen wrote
Dulce et Decorum Est
in 1917.

 
“much nastier . . . started with.”: IWM/(R)/24874.

 
“A good . . . countermeasures.”: MPG, Va5 522.

 
“Some 30 . . . evening.”: WO 142/99 (folder DGS/M/2—Report by Captain W. J. Adie, Royal Army Medical Corps).

 
“the victim . . . drowned.”: Account of Lieutenant Safford, U.S. Marine Corps, given to
Sausalito News
,
1919.

 
The
Frankfurter Zeitung
report is in Foulkes, op. cit., p. 109.

 
“more than . . . attacks . . . our main . . . war”: Foulkes, op. cit., p. 109.

 
“the effects . . . together.”:
Daily Chronicle
, quoted ibid., p.127.

 
“ghoulish reasons . . . We were . . . time.”: Foulkes, op. cit., p. 129.

“strong personal feeling . . . the sinking . . .
Lusitania
”: Foulkes, op. cit., p. 169.

“on a large . . . apiece.”: Ibid.

 
“volcanic . . . grenades.”: Ibid., p. 200.

 
“many . . . poisoning . . . I can’t . . . them.”: Ibid., p. 191.

 
“We are . . . now . . . We have . . . will be.”: Blucher,
An English Wife in Berlin
, p. 158.

 
“the massacres . . . point.”: War Committee Notes, October 20, 2015, CAB 42/4/14.

 
“America . . . impunity.”: Gerard,
My Four Years in Germany
, p. 246.

 
“the autumn of 1917 . . .”: Quoted Massie,
Castles of Steel
, pp. 703–4.