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Show GRIM GAS BATTLES FOUGHT Asphyxiating Shells Fired in Grsjt Quantities by Both Sides in Strug, gles on British Front Andre Tudesq, writing of the battles on the British front, says there was such an expenditure of asphyxiating shells one day that six hours after the last deluge of them suffocating smells were still passed through. Lavish expenditure of gas on both sides form a characteristic of the furious fu-rious attacks and counter-attacks which have been delivered day and night round these two villages. The mask is here as precious as the grenade or the rifle. As in a frightful carnival, in the manner of Edgar Allan Poe, one could see in the night on the slopes west of Fresnoy entire regiments in masks, fighting and killing each other in the midst of black vapors, which were rendered more fantastic by the light of the moon. The hand-to-hand struggle thus took on most singular forms. Throwing away their arms the combatants would fly at each other' throats and try to tear away each other's masks. Few prisoners were taken in these encounters, encoun-ters, and the wounded are fewer still. Death alone receives the lion's share." |