Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-08-15
DEADLY BRITISH GAS.ATTACK TOLD /
OF By SOLDIERS FROM WEST front
"Doctong Germans With Their Own Medicine He Calls It
Weird Cruelty the Fume- Battle Bescribea Suffering
Of Victims Horrible - 70. nc

1FuCuSrs Dul, fOI COuIbet Ills nov
broad daylight, and the gas will be
visible as soon ASH leayes the pipes.
The kasmeD know what to expect.
They know that,as 5000 as the green,
ish-eFay clouds appear outside their
parapet there WIN be Tuning nicssen.
gers and hurried teis phoning Ii the
German lines Trey know that with.
in. feH Winutes the word viii have
reached the German big guns at the
hack; AID that every piece capable of
ffttehing, cut q parapet and btfyihg
them, mangled and broken. among
their oHn cylind ers viii be concentrat.
cd upon ne ffont limo trench ii which
arihei over tie top the tetpipes
IRE flung. ana then. simultaneously
along almost two miles of trench,
there arises d sibilant hiss, as Of some
monstfoiis. and venonicus snake std
denly AROUSED frcm sldmber. Nov the
easrlen are working. frantically with
wheel and spahhers and key, and the
hiss Increases ii shrillness and yo-
luine. Outside the parapet the green
poison fog is. already spreading like
q foul blanket over No,MaEs land:
Carried eeaselessly forward its outer
edge is rapidly approaching the Ger
men trenches, into which it Will pres
entity Sink, spreading sgpay and death
among those Who cannot escape.
mo rife OF machine gun fire has
been ordered this time, and from eth
er line scarcely a sound is heard ex.
cept the deadly hiss ,.of the escaping
fumes. The minutes pass in tense,
oniaous .dhiet Natnfe herself seems
to pause aghast to watch this latest
deFilfy pTactised BIZ her children upon
one an6tnsE rs
aBehihd their maskh tfis kasmen be
gi1sto bfeathe more freely and then
suddenly, on the left 'Crash. - And
Crash, again, and yet again, rats
time on III & right somewhere Close at
hand. The 9An, erouch lower over
their cylinders, the explosions follow
one anothkE alMost to- rahidlyHto
ccpht; and n any case heir minds are
Eoe ,lengIr fitted to 6cdat u care.
Only the Yates must Be turned, and
the pipes must be, watchsds and the
sudden squirt of ;vapos which marks
a leah must be checked by the appli-
cation OF handful Of mud, which the
gas Itself Immediately freezes into an
iron hard and ifhpenetrSbh mass.
4In one 81 the. bays, the parapet
rocks suddenly and falls ipfEard; bury.
ing the men and their Gylindegs. AL
most ltn1edi ately the men scramble
out uhfurt; but the pipes are broken,
and the gas Is filing the trench. with
spanner and mud the thing is stopped.
new connections, are riEeed tip, aid
The death yapor is again directed out.
side what Is left Of the trench But |
one OF the men has had the mouth. |
piece OF, HIS respirator broken, and |
already he is coughing and choking |
I've got it'll he gasps |!
loarsely, and goes behind the ira
verse To suck an ammonia ampule and |
lie slowly,
"Closing.up time! Rapidly the
Talves are shut down, the jet pipes
ana plugged ana stacked
lYky EeFerishly the men work at
tagging up their cylinders again. I'M
sergeant stalks down the
uined and battered trench, shepherd.
ne BIS flock towards their dugout
fe. ii an old-timer-a transfer from
he infantry-aIid scafcely quivers as
!. shell bursts behind a traverse he
las just left. Quietly he directs two
{ the men 70 carry al unconscious
ase to the nearest point of the COM
nunication trench where stretcher.