A DOSE OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2596, 19 October 1915, Page 6

A DOSE OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE

BRITISH GAS ATTACK ON THE HUNS

VIVID DESCRIPTION

By TelflEraph— Freis Association—CopyrisM (Roc. October 18, 10 p.m.) London, October 18. Mr. Philip Gibbs, the "Daily Chronicle's" special correspondent at tho British front, gives a vivid description of a British gas attack south-west of Hulluch. "It was a clear day, and it was possible to see tho wholo of tlio battleground. When the British bombardment" had reached its climax the artillery fire lifted, and the onlookers daw new clouds arising, which spread a denso curtain of a fleecy texture. These were from our smoke-shells, which wore to cover tho infantry attack. Other waves of thin whito vapour followed, and curled forward lo tho enemies' lines. The onlookers held their breath, as though the gas had caught thoir own throats, and dircctly after saw little black things scurrying forward in scattered- groups. Some fell, and others disappeared in tho drifting clouds. These were the British infantry, led by the bombers.

"The tried to 6top the attackers by their poison-shells. All the chemistry of death was poured from both sides. Our men, with tho fiercest valour, swept up the Hohenzollera redoubt, hut the German machine-guns were too many. . The Germans held their trenches with desperate conrago. Tho Britishers showed superb endurance, and only the most resoluto valour enabled us to hold some of tho ground we had! gained with the loss of so many lives."