BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL NEWS
STORIES FROM THE FRONT
'GERMANS SUFFOCATED BY OWN GAS.
(Received May 28, i.15 p.m.) LONDON, May 27. In connection with the German aeroplane referred to on the 21st, "Eyewitness" states that the machine fell headlong on the parapet of a German trench and excited the enemy's interest. Meanwhile the Frenchmen had trained machine guns on the spot, and when sufficient Germans had collected Touud the aeroplane the guns opened and decimated the onlookers. A British howitzer shelled a bath?ing establishment at La Bassee, wounding twenty or thirty Germans. During the action on the 16th and 17th in the Festubert district the 57th Prussian Infantry lost' 2400 out of 3000.
Some Germans at Pilken were suffocated by gas escaping from a cylinder ■blown up by a French shell. Our artillery effected a simiiar result at a trench near the Ypres-Comines canal.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 28 May 1915, Page 7
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