DEADLY GAS.
BODIES. OF 40 BRITISH SOLDIERS , : ;..-:: FOUND IN. CELLAR-^ y T (Elec. .Tel. CopyTight—rUriltea Press Assn.i i----"/- ■-, • iThe Times. V . ',-»' ;. : .., BRUSSELS, May .8. ■< ' The bodies of 40 British so'.diers were discovered- m a -celiar m the Grande, Place at Ypres. They were evidently overcome by gas and were lying peacefully, their heads . pillowed, on their arms. Tlie Itragiedy appa'reml'ily .danb-g back to the summer of 1015, when practically a pLatoon disappeared m the vicinity, supposedly (wiped out by the bursting of a German 15-inch -', sheilf -
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15212, 10 May 1920, Page 5
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