Show NEW G GERMAN ERMAN GAS ATTACKS ARE UNSEEN invisible asphyxiating Asphyxia ting fluid tried against french trenches on western front SMELL GIVES FIRST WARNING men are often overcome before realizing their peril water condenses new gas into visibility masks mask are effective paris A new asphyxiating asphyxia ting gas deadlier than any ever used before and also having the quality of invisibility la Is being used by the germans on the western front to date the gas has not been used in any heavy attacks and for this reason the french officials believe that it Is still in its experimental stages however small emissions of the gas have been tried by the bormans Cor mans with striking effects alt although hougil counter attacks have always enabled the french to retake the trenches they evacuated the first warning of the new invisible gas Is the smell there Is no wave of gray eray green vapor rolling toward the trenches but water condenses it into visibility and in the sectors ot of the front f where it has been used the have lave provided shallow ditches of water in front ot of their trenches to give them warning of the gas crumple up and fall those who have experienced the new gas and lived to describe it assert that the first few inhalations of it do not produce the strangling suffocation that the old visible gas did on the contrary the new gas has a sickening sweetish smell and a man m may ay fill ills lungs with it several times before realizing what it Is the effect then Is to cause the pe person to crumple up and fall he has not the strength to try to run fawny like the old visible gas the new gas Is much heavier than air and therefore rolls into the trenches rind and abels once asphyxiating asphyxia ting gas finds its lt way into a wind ivind protected spot such anch as the angle of a trench it takes days for it to disseminate itself it eve even 11 hangs to barbed wire for hours frequently men have been based by en entering a portion of a trench 72 hours after the gas waves had rolled into it rain does much to beat down and break up the gas clouds however the new F rench french gas masks are as effective against the invisible gas as a against the old gas |