Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-08
BRITISH, TOO, NOW
ATTACK WITH GAS
Have Learned New Offensive
Agent From Germans and
Use It With Success.
is A DANGEROUS ALLY

is A DANGEROUS ALLY
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Correspondence of The Associated Press.)
London, July 25.--Before the "big
squeeze began discussion of British
gas attacks was strictly prohibited,
but now the taboo, has been lifted,
and British "gasman" has been al
lowed to write graphic account OF
the work Of his own special corps
whose business it is, he says, to doc
tor the Germans with their own medi-
cine"
Behind our lines" he writes, "the
sun set in a blaze Of glory. A glance
over the parspet shows the green and
scarlet of the popped No-Man's land
already merging into the gray mists
of twilight; but $50 yards away, like a
brown earth shadow among the grays,
hangs the rusty barbed wire OF the
enemy and just beyond white, chalky
upthrow marks his front line trench.
The gasmen stare across the silent
shadows at that white line and for a
moment think of the choky, gurgling
cough of the men who die by gas. It
is not pleasant to die by gas.
Connect upp The order comes
down the line from one bay OF the
trench to another. and the gasmen
Immediately get busy. The front rows
of neatly piled sandbags Of which
each fire-step is apparently solidly
built. are. pulled out and disclose a
cavity in which show, black and om-
nous, the cowled heads OF q row OF
iron cylinders. They are sunk in pits
well 'bagged up to protect them from
possible crack or puncture by flying
fragment or ricochetting bullet. Each
cylinder weighs about 100 pounds and
contains sufficient compressed gas, IL
It could be used without waste, to put
an entire company out OF action.
"On top Of the cylinders lies 4 tan-
gle of flexible connecting pipes, three
and four way joints, spigots and screw
jet, and upon these, with spanner and
key, the gasmen start work. The CYL
inders are all connected up in series,
and nothing remains but to throw tho
jets over the top of the patapet, and
open the valves In order to release
the deadly fumes.
an Dreeie ~ required.
BUT something else 10 required to
garry me gas over 70 the herman
did sailor scan the sky more intently
than the gasmen watch their little,
nv wy. WIZ saruses' ,,Sel ~
s"s uuse " "e n..;. A I;.y . mus nave
WIN \. .sn ,c9'.oa, 1na
rs 1s oct .,. " e Isn.;1 s.Sns.n.
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shnas s;ors ~ .sLn... ard 800
sionsilv isiis ~ . mare Almost ;r,ner.
csnt;his ,nnbor ~ p
5When moi watchinr the wind. The
oa.men are ws,chinr their n;nss. ~, rs
sssstedIv fs.i;nv ana ,sst;npv ps s,srv
,nch ~ t,hs md ;o;rt, co. nan. Lros,
hetter than thew the danger ~ iesk.
ace and al The escane az oss into thar
own trenches pers;stensiv m off;esr
masses down the line eating ranid
thouuh Keen Stances "a he GOES Al
each set az cylinders and Their con.
meeting mines And IN Isra h.v 4.
nauses and wh;sners two words ~ me
cornorai in charre. eleven o'elocki
But the wind. without which The pas
will not reach the enemy's trench and
do its deadly work among ia oc.
e,,nants heu;ns 10 meter o,,t
aAt ia. 81 the ossmen don thar ans.
c;ai resnirators which IN ths d;w
light give The wearsrs str.nws
almost ;nhuman snnearsncc MssIsd
and goguled with weird trrrL' iiLs
nieees ~ hose rmnr;nn frnm ~
inouth.niece to The how az a;r.n,r;ivs
inc Chemicals strained 10 the;r rhssi,
thew ionl iii. snn,e ~ ths rns.r.hi,
beings who people tie bool.s al M
II WsiIs
"But mot : hre,tb d;st,rh. n. am
,;r Ths feshi. hrss,. has Ala 80,
nletelv Hurr;.div H. orJ.r run,
towr n. linz. ,c.resi al s,a h m'
BEHIND their mssk. ths aasrsr Graz,
put swdSsrivrsacn,
rrackI rat.a.tatI ,,t.sstat.tct, TT.
orders ~ tbe INFANTRY have ~. h.nn
and tbe n,;.t w. ~ IN ~.
njuht Il roughly sh,tter.d hn ,omr
line of v;c;nnsiy crseLi;na r!,s. 's
evils Guns 70 which ths csrr, az.
renIy. "A '"'
lhe gasmen move about uneasily.