POISONOUS GAS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2474, 29 May 1915, Page 5

POISONOUS GAS

SUFFERING OF SOLDIERS

London, May 27. Router's agent at British Headquarters says that the only result the Germans achieved by Monday's gas attack at Ypres was to inflict terrible suffering on a large number of men, many of whom wore caught by the fumes while asleep. Nearly all the lost ground has been recoverod. Tho British soldiers are more embittered by the outrage.' The majority of men who had time to use respirators were more or less unaffected.

VERY PAINFUL SIGHT STRONG MEN STRICKEN DOWN. London, May 27.

Renter's correspondent at the British Headquarters states that doctors, describing their patients, say they have never seen a more painful sight than rows of strong men in the prime of life suddenly stricken down by a power which they mo without the means of resisting. Some were in such torment that they shouted to the doctors to shoot thorn.

Here was a lusty young Highlander, tearing at his throat in a vain effort to get relief; there another victim passive and limp, and too exhausted to continue tho unequal fight. CERMANS SUFFOCATED.

GAS CYLINDERS BLOWN UP. London, May 27. Some of the Germans at Pilkem were suffocated by gas escaping from cylinders which had been blown up by a French shell.

Our artillery effected a similar result in a trench near tho Ypres-Comines Canal.