RUSSIAN VICTIMS OF GAS POISONING.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13791, 11 June 1915, Page 5

RUSSIAN VICTIMS OF GAS POISONING.

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Warsaw reports that the people are furiously indignant at the German use of gases. The first batch of victims arrived with purple faces, suffering slow torturing deaths as if from strangulation. They went through horrible suffering. The- Germans strewed straw in front of their trenches, an<] sprinkled it with a. white powder. They then set fire to it, when there was a favourable wind. Dense clouds of smoke arose, after : which tho Germans followed. The Russians remained in the trench- | es, firing through the smoke, until they were suffocated. . The reserves pushed up through the poison belt, falling at every stop asphyxiated. The .survivors, goaded to indignation, inflicted terrible losses on the enemy. They pursued and captured several German positions. Tho gases have roused the entire Russian armies to a fever of eagerness to avenge the deaths of their comrades. The smell of the gase3 was noticed twenty miles to the rear. Deaths occurred in the third line trenches. The poison is believed to bo chloral.