Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-23 | Page 4 | Bulgarians Fire More Gas Shells into Monastir

BULGARIANS FIRE MORE GAS SHELLS INTO MONASTIR CORFU, Greece, March 22, via London, 12:30 p. m. A semi-official Serbian statement state-ment from Saloniki today declares that the Bulgarians, to avenge themselves because be-cause they were being forced by the pressure of the allied army to retire gradually grad-ually from Monastir, renewed on March 18 and 19 their bombardment of the open town of Monastir. Six hundred additional shells, many of which contained asphyxiating gases, were dropped upon the city. The victims. It Is stated, were only old men, women and children. The death list numbers twenty-five, twenty-five, while twenty-three persons are dying and ten others are suffering from less serious wounds. Fifty-nine houses were demolished. The previous gas bombardment of Monastir occurred on March 17, when more than eighty civilians, a Serbian statement announced, were killed by the asphyxiating bombs and by ordinary shellfire.