BRITISH AND CONTINENTANT NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 28 May 1915, Page 8

BRITISH AND CONTINENTANT NEWS.

SMALL RESULT FROM GAS ATTACK.

EXCEPT INFLICTION OF SUFFERING. A RETALIATORY AIR RAID. GERMAN EXPLOSIVES FACTORY ATTACKED. (Received May 28, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 27.

. Neuter's correspondent with the British headquarters reports that the only result the Germans achieved by Monday's gas attack at Ypres was to inflict terrible suffering on a large number, many of whom were caught by the fumes while asleep. Nearly all the lost ground has been recovered, and the British have been more embittered hy the outrage.

The majority of men who had time to use their respirators were more or less unaffected.

PARIS, May 27. A communique states:. Eighteen French aeroplanes, each carrying fifty Mlogramm.es of projectiles, to-day bomLarded the aniline dye-works s-at Ludwigshafen, now one of the most important explosive factories in Germany. Several buildings were struck and num■erous fires started. The aviators were. nearly six hours in the air. This was a retailiation for the air raid on Paris.