POISONOUS GAS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16842, 28 April 1915, Page 9

POISONOUS GAS.

GERMAN METHODS OF WARFARE. REPRISALS URGED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. PARTS, April 26. The "Journal des Debats " calls on the military to discard all false sentiment and adopt immediate reprisals by the use of gases.

GERMAN BARBARITY.

AMERICAN CONDEMNATION. NEW YORK, April 26.

Tin' whole Press denounces Germany's resort to asphyxiating gases. Retaliation by the Allies in freely anticipated, though its necessity is deplored. The " Tribune" states: "The first duty of civilisation after the war will be to chain down *meh instincts for barbarity as Germany has shown and create international treaties, arraying neutrals against, any belligerent descending to such foul and forbidden methods of warfare."

ELABORATE PREPARATIONS.

GERMAN METHOD EXPLAINED BY PRISONERS. BRITISH ATTACK PREVENTS COMPLETION OF PLANS. (Received April 27. 11.40 p in.) DUNKIRK, April 26. Prisoners state that prior to Thursday’s attack the German officers told the men that the Allies’ lines were very weak, and it would be easy to get to Paris. They made the men swear never to surrender. When the Germans first saw the result of the asphyxiating gas they thought that immediate victory was in their hands. The prisoners add that the Germans bad been preparing the asphyxiating gas for three weeks. They laid a pipeline from the rear trenches to convey chlorine t.o metal cylinders planted in the front, trenches. It had been intended to plant- cylinders all along the Belgian. French and British front where the attack was contemplated, but the British attack on Hill 60 prevented the completion of the plan. Most- obseivers agree that a greenishgrey iridescent vapour preceded Thursday's attack. Victims state that men dressed like divers used a yardlong generator to which a hose is attached. Others sprayed the earth with iluid, afterwards igniting it. A third method was explosive shells, containing a blinding chemical. Many of the resHißßiliflMta