THE ENEMY’S USE OF LIQUID FIRE IN ATTACKING THE ALLIES’ TRENCHES. For the first time British troops have had 1o face the ordeal of liquid fire squirted upon them by an enemy which has adopted every diabolical means to gain a temporary success. They have gained something, it is true—soo yards of trenches which we had previously held at Hooge—but they lose still more by a further slur upon their name as fighting men. Our men were taken by surprise at this new means of destruction; but in spite of the shock many jumped to their feet, firing repeatedly through the flames. Finally, the trenches reached by the burning jets became untenable, and the men were compelled to fall back. Portion of these trenches were, however, eventually recovered by our troops in reserve

Otago Witness, Issue 3212, 6 October 1915, Page 41 (Supplement)

THE ENEMY’S USE OF LIQUID FIRE IN ATTACKING THE ALLIES’ TRENCHES. For the first time British troops have had 1o face the ordeal of liquid fire squirted upon them by an enemy which has adopted every diabolical means to gain a temporary success. They have gained something, it is true—soo yards of trenches which we had previously held at Hooge—but they lose still more by a further slur upon their name as fighting men. Our men were taken by surprise at this new means of destruction; but in spite of the shock many jumped to their feet, firing repeatedly through the flames. Finally, the trenches reached by the burning jets became untenable, and the men were compelled to fall back. Portion of these trenches were, however, eventually recovered by our troops in reserve