PETROL AS A WEAPON.
[V TRENCH SOLDIERS .SHOCKINGLY INJURED. PARIS. March 5. A report of the Army Medical Corps * OTa that shocking injuries were in- ! cted by German contrivances for graying petrol into French trenches, "catures t»ere horribly disfigured, limbs poller,. ai , c t .uniforms burnt off. mr.ch troops suddenly found jots of t* tr <>! failing into the trenches, and rp| . s .oi'dered pipes to be put out, this n fe fruitless. The Germans r e=' hand grenades, and the trenches "<• set ablaze. The Germans profit- •'*>. t ' l '" l>on ' us ' on . "ung lighted n_; ' !,nrl { b° French retreated to *J i"cori(l line. I -.-'!* *** slated officially at the time *r t.n»«c trenches were recaptured.]
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Press, Volume LI, Issue 15220, 6 March 1915, Page 9
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