GASSED IN CELLARS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1898, 2 November 1918, Page 4

GASSED IN CELLARS.

ENEMY TAKEN FN A WARES. Personal echoes from the Helds of victory are now reaching Pari- with (he wounded French and American soldiers, says the Paris correspondent of the Daily Chronicle. On the evening of the lirsl day of the French offensive the troops attacking cast of Loiigpont were faced by a division brought from Russia and Ronmania,. which was to have been relieved three hours later hy a division of Guards. At the mere approach of the poilus these Germans surrendered in masses. They had been told by their officer-;, only a few hoars before, that from Rheims to ilic Argonim the Crown Prince’s armies had advanced a distance of Hi miles. In the region of Billy-soiir-Ourq the Germans were surprised in deep cellar shelters hy the .French gas shells. The cellars are now littered with hundreds of corpses, for the German soldiers were asphyxiated before they could put on their masks.

One interesting fact which proves how precipitately the Germans had to retreat at many points is that they did not have time to poison the wells of drinking water, as they are accustomed to do. A soldier who was among the first troops that pushed forward, exclaimed with great glee, “Our having little to eat doesift matter, since we are advancing, but we can at least drink safely.”