FRANCE.
EFFICIENCY OF FRENCH EXPLOSIVES.
DEAD MEN WITH PIPES IN THEIR MOI THS. (“times” and “sydnev sun” service.} London. Aug. G. The inilit.-iry authorities after the bailie of the* Marne were supplied with strange stories of the aspect of •numbers of German unwounded corpses remaining upright and shouldering their rifles with pipes in their months.
A French scientist. Al. Genearnonx, has now communicated to tlje Academy of Medicine, the fact that the phenomena waj due to the efficiency of French explosives. Within a fifteen yards’ radius of the explosion the displacement of air* was so intense as to cause the distension of blood vessels and arteries, bursting these organs and inducing sudden death. *
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 429, 7 August 1915, Page 5
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