A wooded peninsula northeast of Baltimore, between the Bush and Gunpowder Rivers, is not so peaceful as it looks. Edgewood Arsenal is there. There also is the Army's Chemical Warfare School. Last week 24 National Guard officers reported there to study and practice defenses against war's most forbidding weapon. They joined 24 others in the first National Guard gas class since the Guard was mobilized for a year's field training.
In Edgewood's big classrooms, in the fields of the reservation, they will study for seven weeks the weapon that Germany first effectively introduced...
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