Eastern News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 32, 8 June 1915, Page 5

Eastern News

DENSE POISON CLOUDS. EFFECT ON MAN AND BEAST. V IiNIUu I‘EStM AjiBOOIATIOB . Petrograd, June 7. v The enemy’s Leng and San front is eighteen miles long from the village of Stany, on the left bank of the Long, to Zarmina, ten miles southward of Rudnik. They made a determined night attack, and intended to turn the Russian right oh tke Bzura-Rawka front. The 1 enemy , has adopted the German chemical warfare. Dense poison clouds were launched on the 30th. The smell was perceptible for twenty miles, and hardly a horse, cow, or fowl in the district was left alive, while in the villages numbers of children and women were killed. Horses of the Russian baggage and ammunition trains stampeded or were killed. Reserve regiments with muffled faces rushed up and saved the trenches. The Germans cut a hay through the entanglemontsg but were surprised by appalling fire, and the' attack utterly failed.! The patients suffering from gas are suffering terribly in the hospitals, and their blood has turned to a watery fluid.

HEAVY ENEMY LOSSES. Petrograd, June 7. Official; The enemy pursuing the offensive towards Mosciska were subjected to heavy losses. The Russian crossed the right bank of the Fruth between Delatyn and Koloma, and repulsed a series of counter-attacks by large Austrian reserves. Correspondents narrate that the Russian Army between the Pilica River and the Vistula, while withdrawing to. new lines, inflicted losses of thirty thousand upon the Austro-Germans by feinting attacks. The German formations were halted by them while they swieftly concentrated against two Austrian divisions southwards. Three thousand Austrians were taken prisoners, ancl the rest retreated hurriedly. Then the Russians, by a forced march, concentrated against the German formations and shattered them.