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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16408, 9 December 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

TURNED ON THE ENEM\*, J i '*x "isH* GAS SHELLS FROM HUN GUN". 3 I?? one of our recent advances we caj.' tnred a German gun with a store of over 500 rounds of the "green cross" gas shells s which they are so fond of using. writes awjl Times correspondent. The gan was ii|iS| perfect working order, so she was turned.l jj on the enemy, when, just as she was firing her first shot in her new direction, thff ! artillery officer commanding was lightly wounded by a stray shrapnel bullet. Be--1 fore being taken back to the rear, his final instructions were that the gun was to go on firing till 'she had given the Ger* mans back every round of their ammunition. His orders were carried out. Nigh # "ii,® came and peace fell on the battlefield. m i We had no other gun, of course, itojpf|{| where near where the gun was, but all night long and through the next monu.ig she went on punctually using up- that ammunition, distributing it impartially. along several spots which were known to be full of the enemy. It was late in th® next, afternoon before - the job was dooo? • and by that time a great many German* must havQ been wryrick. of their 3*39 L shells* ' "