tities cordite becomes more powerful

the taste. When chewed in large quan

rîne, an explosive which is sugary to

of alcohol. Its taste, too, is sweet,

and exhilarating effect, like small doses

in small quantities it has a stimulating

is due to the fact that when chewed

a sort of chewing gum. Its popularity

terrible explosive cordite as if it were

can get hold of it insist on using that

pean armies is that those soldiers who

One of the troubles of most Euro

Line 1.1.0 in its effects, bringing on a blissful

Line 1.1.1 state of ecstasy, and sometimes mak

Line 1.1.2 ing the victim of the habit see visions.

Line 1.1.3 But the real danger of the habit lies

Line 1.1.4 in the fact that though nitro-glycerine

Line 1.1.5 will only explode when given a very

Line 1.1.6 hard blow or touched by an electric

Line 1.1.7 spark, there is always a possibility that

Line 1.1.8 the grinding of exceptionally hard teeth

Line 1.1.9 might provide the necessary hard blow.

Line 1.1.10 Within the last few years, at least,

Line 1.1.11 three soldiers—two German and one

Line 1.1.12 Austrian—have been blown to bits, the

Line 1.1.13 use of cordite as a chewing gum being

Line 1.1.14 the suspected cause. The habit was

Line 1.1.15 not unknown in the British Army some

Line 1.1.16 years ago, till the military authorities