LIQUID FIRE.

Nelson Evening Mail, 2 August 1916, Page 2

LIQUID FIRE.

AN AWFUL DEATH. (Australian and N.Z: Cable Association.) (Rec. Aug. 2; 2.20 p.m.) NEW YORK, August ~1. An awful picture of the effects of liquid fire are given by the_ New York Times correspondent- in Paris, who interviewed. a French officer 011 the Sorhnie ■vbo was directing fire from a tree-top. He saw a. detachment of German flanienwerfer carrying l devilish appliances advancing. "When iri the hollow I telephoned" directions and shell fell among and smashed the apparatus. This' ie--1 eased, the liquid fire, and then I, got a glimpse of what ; hell must be like. As, a torrent of shells fell, great sheets «.f llame rose up and. the ground became a whirling sea, of fire.' In the midst of ■t, the Germans, like h'vih.y torches, were dvin# horribly. One spurn like a.' top lid straggled* superhumahlv,- "but finall'.y fell into the' pool of fire. Others rolled.' on the dry ground, but the liquid' enveloped them. There was' a dreadful Stench of burning flesh which was'indescribable. As I scrambled back to the lines the awful and" unforgettable screams of the dying rose above the din of the battle."