RUSSIANS AND POISON GAS.
INCIDENTS OF HEROISM.
HUNS MET WITH BAYONET.
(Received - June 15, 1.30 a.m.)
Pethograd, June 14Many incidents of heroism are reported in connection' withe the first use of gas by the Germans on the eastern front. ■ The Russians were ordered to remain quiet in the trenches until the Germans, expecting to find the Russians stifled, crept up to the entan glements. Numbers of Russians fell asphyxiated, after intense suffering When the enemy appeared behind the death-cloud, the Russian rifles swept away the first ranks and the remainder retreated. The Russian machine guns were worked, with a soldier holding wet bandages over the gunner's face, until both died together. The first Russian trenches were practically filled with asphyxiated men, but the reserves came up and avenged their comrades with the bayonet. Many of the Germans came within their own gas zone, their shrieks in the throes of the poison being terrible to hear.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15944, 15 June 1915, Page 8
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