NIGHT LIGHTS IN THE BATTLEFIELD
GERMANS USING SKY-ROCKETS: (Reo. March 17, 8.5 p.m.) Calais, March 16. 'A fantastic and uncanny feature of tl\o fighting in France and Flanders is tlm extensive use of illuminating rockets. The Germans initiated t'lie system, fearing bayonet night attacks. Soldiers, with pistols, shoot rockets some hundred yards higli, and a cotton fuse, which is attached, ignites an illuminating mixture which blazes lilto. "Bengal fire," and simultaneously liberates small parachutes, which sustain the rocltots in the air for a. considerable time.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2412, 18 March 1915, Page 5
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85NIGHT LIGHTS IN THE BATTLEFIELD Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2412, 18 March 1915, Page 5
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