FIGHTING A SCOURGE.
TERRIGLE EFFECTS OF GASES. PLAY HAVOC AVITH FRENCHMEN. Received April 20, 9.30 p.m. London, April 26. The Daily Chronicle considers that the Allies are no longer fighting a nation, but a scourge like a cholera curtain. The asphyxiating gas advanced like the yellow wind in northern China. It rose to a height of sixteen feet, and evirtcntl}' the Germans had placed big reinforced bottles of gas, compressed by high pressure, on the top of the trenches. These bottles were opened when the wind was certain to carry the gases in the direction of the enemy's trenches. Many of the French troops, not knowing the danger, attempted to escape, but died at their post. The corpses turned black, and those who escaped spat blood owing to the chlorine attacking the mucous membrane. These effects were felt o\er six kilometres by two. Elsewhere the gas was too diluted to kill, thougn it suffocated many. '
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 272, 27 April 1915, Page 5
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155FIGHTING A SCOURGE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 272, 27 April 1915, Page 5
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