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First use of chlorine gas at the the front.
Dr. Fritz Haber, a German physical chemist, had been working just prior to the start of the Great War on a means of converting an industrial bioproduct, chlorine, to weaponized uses. All of the Allies and Entente powers had signed the Hague Convention of 1907, but the Germans considered the convention void if the "extingency of war" called for it and claimed, at least for chlorine. The first use of chlorine gas as a killing agent was not noted by the Allies, who may not have been aware in the hectic first month of the war what had happened, but German sources claimed to have killed "150 British officers" using the gas sometime before this date.
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