Show FIRE PLAYS PART PARTIN IN WARFARE OF EUROPE V. V French Soldier Tells Tells' V of Some New German Tactics TROOPS ARE AFLAME Petroleum Is Poured on Foes and Torches Follow By fly HENRY WOOD United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS PArtIS March 21 B Hy mall to New ew lork ThIR Thim This Is If how the tho Germans Germ Initiated Ini mi- tinted their latest method of ot warfare against al tho the Trench that French that of or spraying tho the enem enemy with petroleum and then them shelling with bombs It 1 was nn re recounted re- re counted to the time United by one ono of ot the survivors of or the tho attack attack l i private who ho survived with his hie face foce and hands charred almost to the bone bont Not oot even the tIle sinking h by German submarines submarines sub sub- marines of or merchant vessels vessels' crows crews hn has aroused I the Indignation In France as ns has this now new warfare with fire Little consolation con- con cn e has hns been found In the fact that th the one time which the tho Germans tried It cost cot them most heavily It 1 was warn In the tIme Malancourt woods between the Argonne and the tho Meuse oleuse Although 4 a score of French troops In the first flut line lino trenches were burned to a crisp themen tho the thomen thomen men of the tho second line trenches aroused to a a. tu fury furj of rO en revenue revenge e b by tho the nature of ot the attack rushed up U UIn In support anti and tho the Germans retreated leaving heaving ICO dead wounded and sixty sixty six six- t ty prisoners V It was evening towards nightfall the burned soldier told tho the United Press The day had been relatively l calm an and nothing had left lert us to foresee fore fore- see Ice an nn attack b by tho the Suddenly Sud Sud- denly one of or In my comrades exclaimed Look hero hern what Is this that's tailIng fallIng falling fall fall- Ing One would answer It was wan pe pe- pe Petroleum Sprays For tho the moment we remained In Incredulous incredulous In- In credulous But later Inter we 0 c were obliged to admit It Tho The liquid which reached us In two carefully directed jets Jet was mm assuredly petroleum The Germans Germane vero us with It both bollt by means of ot fire firC engine pumps taken from nearby villages and by means ns of ap ap- that purposes At once the lieutenant In th charge or ordered ordered ordered or- or dered u us to extinguish our pipes But nt tho time precaution was useless Within a 0 afew afew few rew seconds grenades be begun be be- gun gan to rain In on us us and then them as ns If It to rend render or Infallible their diabolical plan lan the tho Germans Germana themselves shed dashed Up to our trenches hurling lighted torches amongst us ua In an Instant wo Were all aflame There was S not one of ofUs ofUs ofus Us who escaped the torrent of fire Our clothes were satUI saturated ted with pe petroleum po po- find and with wilh every ono one of ot us on fire tire wo we were obliged ell cost what It might to abandon th the tho trench and nee flee Fortunately however our comrades In the second line lino of ot trenches behind us liS Is held f. f fast As we ve C dashed d madly towards them the they grasped Instantly tho the situation and charged with bayo bayo- nets The fury of or their onrush was such that the Germans could not for or a moment resist and nil all that thc they had gained b bv by their dastardly attack t was not ot ont only lost but bUl of them remained behind either cither dead wounder or prisoners prison prison- ers era Is French Patent Almost simultaneously simultaneous with this a at attack attack at- at t- t tack b by fire n a similar assault h hy by the same Mine means nS was W frustrated ru at another point of tho the I French rench line In a most startling m manner Word Wont has been r re received received re- re III In the first lino line trenches that an I attack was wa hn Impending and a steady stead fire lire was being maintained Into the dark darkness 1 I ness mess despite the fa fact th that t nothing Ya was waa vi si following a x ollO a great burst of or flame but hut u a r few yards I In alance ad au- advance vance ance of time the Illuminated 1 the blackness and then the stricken French saw aw a D. man wrapped In flames that leaped leapt IM I Into the air rush wildly mildly Mel bach to tim the thi German tr trenches falling before he i reached cached th them and perishing perishing per per- In tn the fire him lie I had bel been approaching the lie French Trench tr trenches v aith Ith ono of or the machines for tor or spraying the enemy n m with petroleum when It U was struck bj by jy a ball bail which In Instantly In- In It U. Sow Now ow U It has haN Just jUHt been discovered co b Inthe In hy the tile French th that t time the YH very cry apparatus I which tho the Germans an tr urine for the purpose of or saturating I the time enemy with Inflammable liquids was WUI In 1108 patented patented patented pat pat- In III France by hy UK its German Gemini Inventor Invent nt or 11 Fielder 1111 r 1 A second patent was granted on Oil it h by the J. J French government gee gov In 1911 Fielder In filing his model and specifications for or the time patent stated slated specifically that It wn wa wai I for I un III in war Tho French however er never I dreamed that the Germans would use It a against themAn them then An International committee embracing log ing ln l Americans l- l English French Russians Bus Rus I stans and has just JUKI bt been en or organized or or- C for time tile purport of or extending help to the thousands of Art Urt- lets thrown n C out of or employment b by the sar tor In Franco and alone t there are tort forty opera houses housea closed the artists there are thousands of chorus people an and Orchestral performers performers per per- formers In the he dire wain Tin The has ht outlined Hils of ot work worl One or of Ih tha lending leading opera hou p 9 of rl Ii I is to II hu w secured and convert converted Il Inlo on an Int academy Students Student coming from Lull hit of ot tho lbS allied nation nations will J tiC tuc o Instructed free Ino of COt COSt At t the academy Later th the thy y will glee clev public performances th the proceeds proceed of ot h h will KO go to support e ili II out of or nt |