KILLED BY THEIR OWN GAS.

Taihape Daily Times, 8 January 1918, Page 5

KILLED BY THEIR OWN GAS.

IMMENSE GERMAN SHAMBLES. The story of the obstruction by the French artillery of fee German asphyxiating gas installations in the region of Souain and Tahure (Champagne) is told by the Daily Chronicle's Paris correspondent. The French staff had learned that the work of assembling the machines of a new and perfected model, was being pressed forward with feverish haste, although the enemy was at great pains to shroud the operations in secrecy. The reservoirs employed were of immense capacity, mucii greater than any seen before in the front, and connected by means of underground pipes with a gigantic gasometer. Under the guidance of aeroplanes, the French batteries began their attack on August 20, and continued It until a few days ago. From time to time terrifying explosions were heard. Raids carried out in the Souain-Ta-hure sector have given the French staff proof of the total destrubtion of the Germans' new gas installations. . Within a large radius no living enemies were visible, but heaps of corpses made the region an immense shambles. Prisoners taken from second line trenches admit that the huge % volumes of gas stored in the reservoirs spread over the German trenches, bringing panic and death to their occupants.