A NEW GERMAN SHELL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1623, 12 October 1916, Page 4

A NEW GERMAN SHELL.

Home curious stories are told by correspondents on the western front, and one of the most curious relates to a new sort of shell that the Germans have been using. Night is'made beautiful when an attack is in progress by star shells and (lame shells, designed to illuminate the battlefield, but these arc quite commonplace now. Lately, however,' both by day and by night, a “rocket” shell has made its appearance. When it hursts it emits something very like the golden rain of fireworks dislpays. “It is very beautiful, but what its use may bo is amatter for argument.” says a correspondent of the Times, “it is not known to have done any harm, and so spectacular is it, and so seemingly innocuous, that when 1 was ■up that way yesterday one of the officers who had been in the fighting of the night before, when the things had been used more than hali-seri-oaslv, put forward the suggestion that they were really fireworks and intended as such to eat eh the attention of our men and make them look up, forgetting the precautions for the moment, when the euemj s snipers would gel their chance. Preposterous as the suggestion sounds, it shows how little terrified oiu men are by the enemy’s horrors.”