The Mystery of "Tak-Tak？" As An Urban Legend and Ind？cat？on of French's Po？sonous Gas Usage

It is without a doubt that the most dangerous weapons of the First World War were poisonous gas bombs. With failing to stop these poison gas weapons, The Western armies adopted various methods in order to foresee the weapon’s usage and protect themselves from its effects. Among these methods there were gas tube hissing, horn blowing, bell ringing and such other things. The last found method was deemed the most effective. When the gas started to draw near the frontline, a wooden tool named Wood Gas Alarm Rattle would give a warning to soldiers indicating that they should put on gas masks, by means of being rotated by the trench lookout. Existence of one specimen of these gas alarm rattles, which was used by American, English, German and French forces in The First World War, in Gaziantep, the city invaded by the English and then the French following The First World War, represents a concrete evidence regarding that poisonous gases were used in this region. None of the urban legends and tales which were about this tool that the people of Gaziantep named “tak-taki” was based on any concrete information or document