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Show Miscellany The Way German Poison Gas Affects Victims. It was against the British, remember, that the Germans first used their poison gas. I happened to be on the British front at the time, and it was from one of the survivors that I heard the tory. Everywhere lay men who were dead or dying not from wounds, but from strangulation. stran-gulation. The faces of those that were dead were blue and bloated like the face of a drowned man. Those that were still alive drew their breath In great choking, agonizing sobs, as though the effort to breathe was tearing their very vitals. I saw them a little later In the hospital, and 1 shall never forget the scene: A long line of men with blackened and distorted dis-torted features, the sweat standing in glistening beads upon their foreheads as they fought for breath, heaving, choking, panting, gasping, like fish which have been thrown out upon the bank to die. Have you ever seen a man hanged ? Well. I have. And that was the way these men were dying, only slowly, much more slowly. AH that was lacking was the rope- Prom "On the British Battle Line." by L Alexander Powell, in the October Scribner. |