Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-23 | Page 2 | German Gas Shell Harm Slight in American Lines

GERMAN GAS SHELL HARM SLIGHT IN AMERICAN LINES WITH THE AMERICAN' ARMY ON THE LORRAINE FRONT. Sept. 22. (By the Associated Press.) A summary of German oie rat Ions shows that on the night of September l.'-16 there was sent lnto the American lines fiOOO gat sheila with alrnont no serious effects. It developed from the character of the fire and from n examination of gas shells which failed lo explode that the Germans arr using a new type of gas projector. The shell, or canister, is about twenty-four inches long by six inches in diameter. The ranee of the projector is some 400 yards greater tha n those previously In use. Two hundred hun-dred of the new shells which fell between the advanced post and the front line contained con-tained phosgene ga.s. The greater part of tho gas shells so far used by the Germans, Ger-mans, however, contained nnuturd gas, 1