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DEATH CLOUD iff EASTERN ' FRONT HEROISM OP THE RUSSIANS (Rec. June- 10, 0.55 a.m.) Petrograd, June 14. Many incidents of heroism were connected with the first use of gas on the Eastern front. Tho Russians were ordered to remain quiet in their trenches until the Germans, expecting to find, the Russians stifled, crept up to the entanglements. "Numbers of Russians fell asphyxiated after intense suffering, and when the enemy appeared behind the death oloud our rines swept away the first ranks. The remainder retreated. "Our machine-guns were worked with soldiers holding wet bjwdages'.to.' the gunners' faces until both -died together. "The first Russian trenches were practically filled with asphyxiated men, but the ( reserves camo up and avenged them with the bayonet. Many of the Germans came within their own gas 7.0n0, and their shrieks in tho throes of tho poison were horrible to hear."
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2488, 15 June 1915, Page 5
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146LATE NEWS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2488, 15 June 1915, Page 5
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