GERMANS SUFFOCATED BY THEIR OWN GAS.
•' CYLINDER BLOWN UP BY FRENCH SHELL. HEAVY LOSSES OF THE PRUSSIAN INFANTRY. "'•"'! London, May 27. A British howitzer shelled a bathing establishment at La Bassee, . wounding 'twenty or thirty Germans. ~ • > During the action on May 18' and 17 in the Festubert district the . ..•- 57th, Prussian Infantry lost 2400 out of 3000. Some of the Germans •■at Pilken, north of. Ypres, were suffocated by gas escaping from a ' cylinder blown up by a French shell. ' r •' '" British artillery effected a similar result in a trench near the " Ypres-Comines Canal. ■•."«' ' ONLY RESULT OF THE ATTACK ON YPRES.
, SOME BRITISH SOLDIERS POISONED WHILE ASLEEP.
'..-'. '"" " ' s '■'.. London, May 27. ,s|v"t*,':^Reut-ei , 's correspondent with the British headquarters says that ' - the only result the Germans achieved in Monday's attack with gas ?} on. Ypres was to inflict terrible suffering on a large number, many of whom were caught by fumes while asleep. "V Nearly all the lost ground was recovered. The T ' «sh are more " embittered by the outrage. The majority of the men wno had time ■■• , ..to use respirators were little affected by the fumes; '.;->'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15930, 29 May 1915, Page 8
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