Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-08-11
AMERICAN Soldier MUST learn
T0ENDURE Weird kind Of WAR

clouds, or showered upon them in a
deluge of heavily charged cylinders
and shells. They must prepare to
deal also with the treacherous lachry-
matory gas which while not danger
GUS to life irritates the tearducts I'M
til one cries with blinded, smarting
eyes for hours. The surprise Of both
these gases is their altogether pleas
ant smell the lethal variety suggest
ing the clean odor Of sanitary hospi-
tai ward, while the so-called tear gas
has the appetizing scent of crushed
ripe apples or cider.
There is also the demonstrating ter
ror of the "flamenwerfern" with its
roaring stream Of liquid fire with the
velocity of q high pressure fire nozzle
and with an offpoHring of smoke ris-
ing Ike q blaek.eyclone cloud to the
heavens.
The first day of their stay in bat
tie trenches the Americans will make
the acquaintance Of a very old, but
I scarcely cherished, friend of the Tom
mics and poilus-another member OF
the Werfer family known as Minnie"
This is the German mine thrower or
minewerfer, which filings over at short
range great heavy projectiles known
as flying pigs" because of their wab-
bly,, ungainly flight. They 90 off with
a deafening roar, expanding more en-
ergy on noise, however, than on ma
terial damage.
A notable development of the war
has been the dread with which the
Germans have seen weapons of their
own invention turned against them,
and turned with a steadily increasing
intensity. Their prisoners speak Of
the terror these weapons have caused
and declare the German higher COM
mand is realizing all too late the
Frankensteins it brought into being
While the Entente Allies are multiply
ing these terrors on the lines laid
down by Emperor William himself,
the Germans, isolated so long from
the world, find their resources and ma
terials constantly failing both as to
means of carrying on this style of
warfare and, what is more important
to them, combating the retributive
measures undertaken by British and
French.
Asphyxiating gas may be- taken as
"a striking example. The whole world
was shocked when Germany first re-
leased those poison clouds during their
second attack on Ypres when the Al
lies, little suspecting such a weapon,
had no protection whatever against it..
The horror Of those days when men
| engulfed by the lethal waves died
Ia vlS,1r he xrvfII
gotten. But the manner in which the
Canadian troops rallied and prevented
the Germans breaking through in what
they hoped would be a victorious
march to Calais and Boulogne, will
ever be one of the most thrilling
stories Of the world war. Nowadays
the British fairly battle the Germans
In every form Of gas whenever the
slightest opportunity offers and pris.
oners all say their losses in these at.
ftacks have been alarmingly heavy.
Gas is sent over in creeping banks OF
fog, is shot over in bombs that sud
denly explode in trenches and at en-
frances to dugouts, while no billets or
sleeping quarters for troops in rest
back of the fighting lines are safe
from the gas shells which are ever
knocking at their doors.
The bitterness OF it all to the Ger.
mans, however, issthe fact that daily
they find they have less and less rub
Der with which to construct their gas
masks, many of which are very in.
ferior and offer but poor protection
to the fighting men against gases that
constantly are becoming stronger.
Boiling and blazing oil drums which
they find exploding about them in
scalding and incendfary fury, heavy
shells which break over them squirt
ing streams Of melted lead, are other
species of the dread chickens Of fright
fulness that are daily flying home to
the German roost. -
It is small wonder that halffinished
letters found on Germans IN the front
lines dwell upon the terror OF the
war, or that some go so far as to speak
q desperate envy Of the dead.
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