USE OF POISONOUS GASES
FRENCH COMMISSION'S INVESTIGATIONS. *■ PARIS, May 8. The Commission >on the Enemy's Violation :r <>f International -Law-, in its: third report, deals with gas, which it says there is.levery indication the Germans intend to use generally- A . prisoner stated .that one.battery containing twenty retorts was placed eveiy forty.metres along, one. part of-the front. • .'i: :The Gerin?flas .were - furnished nwith 'elaborate masks and respirators .fitted with plugs "saturated with a neutralising GERMANY'S EXCUSE. BRITAIN WAS GOING TO. USE BLOODHOUNDS-! BUD A PEST, May 8. In ovder to explain the use of gases, Germany has '.officially , circulated a statement in Austria-Hungary that the British were preparing--to .throw - 2000 starved and ferocious blo^hounds' into / the German lines. j
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 10 May 1915, Page 2
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