HOIST BY THEIR OWN PETARD.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 218, 19 October 1916, Page 2

HOIST BY THEIR OWN PETARD.

GERMANS SUFFER BY GAS ATTACK. LONDON, October 17. Major Redmond 's appeal relates that in one attack poison gas of the most concentrated form was used. An Irish division suffered heavily,, but Providence was on our side, for the wind changed suddenly and blew back to the trenches where Bavarians were ready massed to attack. The enemy were taken by surprise. They left their front line and ran across the open, when they were mown down by our artillery. Thirteen hundred were killed of which a large number died of gassins?. Once the division and an Ulster division held the line side by side FRENCH COMMUNIQUE. SOME SMALL GAINS. LONDON, Oct 17. A French communique states: We captured a new group of houses at Sailly Saillisel. A violent counter-at-tack succeeded in penetrating our first line, but we immediately threw the enemy out. i