REPRISALS

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3300, 24 July 1917, Page 3

REPRISALS

FLAME AND BOILING OilLondon, July 17. The Times correspondent at Headquarters, who acponipanied the King and the Prince of Wales in their tour of tbe French front, tells of fearful engines of war. s They saw an exhibition of chemical abominations, and the latest typo of i flame-projector, which is mv.li 'more devastating than that the Germans flung across the field. It has a vile red tongue, with a secrcbing flame, which consumes and shrivels whatever is iv its path. They saw boiling oil projectors fling great floods of flaming liquid, -which char and devour whatever touches them. Further, gas of a thick greenish vapour rolled sluggishly over supposed German trenches, in wh'ch no one would have been alive after the vile flood had passed. A smoke barrage- a dense, white curtain, behind which the movement of troops and guns is invisible—was also demonstrated. Tlie King .spoke disgustedly of the batbarism of .the enemy,, which compelled u.s to meet them with uncivilised weapons. Ours were now much more potent than theirs.