ASPHYXIATING GAS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 195, 27 April 1915, Page 5

ASPHYXIATING GAS.

Bick CURTAIN ROLLS DOWN. DEADLY CHLORINE USED. GERMANS WEAR MASKS, <Recd. 9.30 p,m.) LONDON, April 2i.s Cb© “Daily Chronicle’s” Calais - -J> fpondent says that the Allies •"« \longer fighting a nation, bnt a mrge, like cholera. A, curtail of ihyxiating jgas advanced lik« ;• : dl ' ■f -wind in northren China* It .ose » height of 16 feet Evident!, -the naans placed big. reinforced l-, -'les gas, compressed'by a high pres =.re, the top of the trenches and im when the wind was certain to ■ry the gas to the j position o>my'a trenches. Many French not awing the dagger, attempted t- eeand- died. ■ Most of the co: psea n!ed black. •'' 'hose men who escaped spat bicod, iug to the chlorine attacking the cuous membrane. 3ie»e effects were felt over an area Six kilometres by two. Blsevs here, gas was too diluted to kill, though suffocated many. ifter the gas had escaped for fifteen masked Germans took possion of the arms of the dead men. ey ma& no prisoners. When they ir a seedier whom th© fumes had quite killed they threw his rifle 3 the Yser and ironically advised l to “Lie down and thus die bettor.” ten reinforcements arrived, the >nch opened a terrible fire. Simuleously, th e Canadians thrust a i£e, cutting off many Germans who [ advanced too far, in order to play infamous trick on a party of French-

l German column was threatened H decimation, owing to the French They held up their rifle butts, 1 waved in the air a white flag, ling out "We surrender,” but when x the French trenches they opened killing many Frenchmen, whom Canadians were able to avenge.