FRANCE AND BELGIUM.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 22 May 1915, Page 5

FRANCE AND BELGIUM.

SHARP ARTILLERY DUELS

USECGF POISONOUS GAS

WHOLESALE GERMAN PREPARA-

TIONS.

MILES OF PIPE LINES LAID. •

PARIS, May 21. Official—There have been sharp artillery duels between Nieuport and Arras. Two German aviators were brought down, one by the British and the otner by us. We progressed by mining operations at Beausejbur as far as the enemy's trenches. \Ve repulsed an attack at Bagatelle and carried further trenches at Bois d'Ailly.

BERNE, May 21. Travellers from Alsace declare the Germans are installing pipe lines connected with generating stations some distance behind the front to emit vast volumes of poisonous gas when the French advance. There is a similar arrangement on the Austrian frontier, where the entire region is tunnelled and pipes are laid.