Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-08
STILL
MAKING USE OF
GAS, IS REPORT
Official Eyewitness, in Long
Account of YpreS and Hill.
No. 60 ENGAGEMENTS Re-
cords Use Of VapOr Bombs.
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the engagement OF the last Few uaNs
In Ypres region records that the Ter
mans have continued the use OF as
gases but with less success
than on the first occasion.
Despite the use OF gas by the Ger
mans the narrative says the French
have made continual advances east of
The Ybros canal, south Of Pilkelm, the
result of which was 10 remove the
wedge occupied by the Germans I'M
tho French line between the canal and
the -LangemarclS road, a gain
OF more than 1000 Yards. During
these advances, q large number of Ger
man prisoners were taken
While the French continued their
advance In this section II Is asserted
that the Germans attacked the British
south of Neuve Chapelle and at hill
90, in both cases being gases. In the
latter attacks, however, owing to a
change in the wind, the fumes were
blown back toward the Germans, VINO
are believed TO have suffered, as no at
tempt TO advance was made by them
Similar tactics are said 10 have been
adopted by the Germans in their at
tack north OF Ypres last Sunday.
Cloud of vapors Launched.
about o'clock In the evening,
the eyewitness says, "a dense cloud
OF suffocating vapors, was launched
from their trenches along the whole
from. held by the French right and
by our left from the Ypres-l-ange-
marck road to a considerable distance
east OF 81. Julien The fumes did not
carry much beyond our front trenches,
but these were 10 a great extent rem
dered untenable and a retirement
from them was ordered.
mo sooner had this started than
the enemy opened a violent lombard
ment with asphyxiating shells and
shrapnel on our trenches and on our
infantry as they were Withdrawing
Meanwhile our guns had not been idle.
From a distance perhaps owing TO
SEINE popularity OF the light, the gas
on this occasion looked like a great
reddish cloud. and the moment II was
seen our batteries poured eoncen-
trated fire on the German trenches.
Cloud Rolls Back ON Germans.
Curious situations then arose be-
tween us and the enemy. The upper
part OF the poison belt shredded into
thin wreaths of vapor rs it was shaken
by the wind while the lower and
denser parts went into inequalities Of
the ground and rolled slowly down the /
trenches. Shells would rend 1t for a |
moment, but 1t only settled down
again as quickly as before.
Nevertheless the German infantry
faced it and they faced q hail OF
shrapnel as we'll In some cases
where the gas had not reach our lines
our troops held firm and shot through
the cloud at the advancing Germans.
In other cases the men holding the
front line managed to move to the
flank, where they were more or less
beyond the affected area. Here they
waited until the enemy came on, and |
then bayonetted them when they |
reached our trenches.
English Charge Through Cloud.
con the extreme left our supports |
waited until the wall Of vapor reached |
our trenches, when they charged !
it and met the advancing
Germans with the bayOnet as they /
swarmed over the parapets.
South of st. Julien the denseness
Of the vapor compelled us to ev8euate /
trenches, but achievements arrived /
who charged the enemy before they |
could establish themselves. In every /
case the assaults failed completely |
Large numbers We're mown down by !
cur artillery. Men were seen falling /
In heaps and others scattering and /
running back to their own lines. MANY
could not make their way through 1t, |
md IN all probability q great number
IF the wounded persisted from the
fumes.
Similar Attacks less Successful.
Farther to the east similar at
tack was made about p. M. which 4
seems to have been attended with
Ven less success. and the assaulting
was at once beaten back by
our artillery fire.
1T was not long before all our
trenches Were reoccupied and the
whole line re-established in its origi-
nal position, The attack on the
French met with the same result.
"A great deal has been sale Of the
roops on the left which saved the
situation on April 22-23, but the SER
vices rendered by the British infan-
.ry farther east were no less re-
The area to the north and
east OF Sonnebeke representing a mar
low horn of the Salient, formed a kind
# bastion Throughout the fighting
his garrison held firm under a rak-
ng artillery fire from all sides and
lnder repeated assaults which were
delivered with so much determination
hat the enemy more than once reach
ID our trenches before they were
beaten back
Not only was this 50 but while our
men In this quarter were engaged in
repelling attacks In front they knew
all the time that the troops on the
other fronts were falling back. The
test was as hard as any soldiers can
be asked TO endure"
Indian Troops Show Steadiness.
The eyewitness then relates Incl
dents showing the steaAness Of the
indian troops, who, he says, aad-
yanced under a hurderous fire their
war cry swelling louder and louder
above the din
Prisoners captured in the recent /
lighting, the narrative continues
stated that one German CORPS lost /
80 per cent Of its men In the first
week, that the losses from our artil- /
Iery fire, even during the days when
no attacks We're taking place, had
been very heavy and that many Of !
heir own men had suffered from the
Effects of the gas.
1t would seen that a large num-
Der Of infantry who had received /.
only three weeks training were /
brought up during the battle to re-
place the casualties.
German Patrol for StraggIers.
The eyewitness then quotes Ger
man brigade order telling the off
GERS TO have the field Of battle and |
lhe ground In the rear patrolled for /
II complains that many |
Of the soldiers accompany to the rear |
men who are only slightly wounded.
This says the eye-wifness.
would impress some as failure in dis
cipline on the part Of the German
soldiers but under the stress of fight