CAUGHT BY THEIR OWN GAS CLOUD
AN INCIDENT IN THE EASTERN THEATRE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. 'August 17, 10 p.m.) Petrograd, August 17. It lias transpired that three thousand' Germans, preceded by an asphyxiating cloud, advanced at dawn on August 8 hoping to storm on© of the forts at Ossowiecz. The wind suddenly changed, and tlio Germans, in a panio, fled, while the fortress artillery shot hundreds down. Many of the. enemy were attacked by their own artillery before the latter realised the reason of the flight. Overtaken by the gas, and between t'ft'o fires, the column was practically annihilated.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2543, 18 August 1915, Page 5
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100CAUGHT BY THEIR OWN GAS CLOUD Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2543, 18 August 1915, Page 5
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