Second Edition. Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 31, 7 June 1915, Page 6

Second Edition. Eastern News

DEVI LISH DEVICES. HOIST WITH OWN PETARD. . _ United Pbkbi Association, (Received 9.5 a.m.) Petrograd, June C. the Germans earlier in the war used vitriol, which was squirted into the trenches. They later used bombs containing concentrated formalin, causing much eye trouble over large areas. Then these methods, being apparently unsatisfactory, they adopted gas,, but applied it differently from the "western method, bri one Galician front they ignited large quantities, of straw before their trenches, into which objects resembling shoii lengths of rope were thrown, changing the smoke into flames. The enemy, were next observed trying to extinguish the flames with hoses. Their purpose having failed, the enemy climbed out of their trenches and ran for their lives, Russian rifle-fire meanwhile decimating the refugees. At other.points, the Germans threw tins like biscuit boxes, which burst on impact with the ground, emitting dense poisonous fumes. Prisoners illtreated. BITS OF BREAD FOR STARVING MEN. “ (Received 2.20 p.m.) Petrograd, June 6. A revolting story of the treatment of a party of Russian prisoners comes from Poland./ They were locked up and iVere’fooclless for several days until they were op the verge of starvation; Then they were turned into the courtyard, where jeering officers threw them bits oflmead. While the staggering wretches \yere searching for the fragments, a cinematographer photographed the scene,