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United Service. LONDON, . ; Aug, ;8. " Mr, Raymond Carroll, correspondent ■ for the United . Press -I Association, with < the Americans, describes mnider : trapii •', found in evacuated. territory. Bulbs, and! "• bladders, filled with pht>ss;ene - -:* gas, -:;• were found in : buildings and ''dug-' 's' outs, under helmets, and jin ■ loarcs of bread. When . touched . these 'exploded.':'. A captain was approaching an hotel when fet a German officer walked out and offered '■■'■ t3 surrender. The American .co'vercd * - him with a revolver, and jumped asido, barely in timi to escape a rain of bullets from a machine-gun, hidden in the cellar of an abandoned hospital. r i.%;\.\.;-;y;::;
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16925, 10 August 1918, Page 7
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