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The gas-masked American soldier is compared to a monster from Mars by the Highland Recorder. The Premier of Australia in an address to the Union League says the "fate of civilization hangs in the balance." The German plan for world conquest requires sacrifice be freely made. 

Source: "Over the Top with Gas," Highland Recorder, Monterey, Highland County, Virginia, June 14, 1918. Page 1, Column 1.