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FROM HISTORY
A Compilation of Incidents In
Medieval and Modem History
I Which Might Have A Cur
rent Significance.
By George C. Dedmondt
SECRET WEAPONS
April 22, thirty years ago, while
the armies of the Central powers
and the Allies were playing a
game of checkmate, and just after
the battle of Neuve Chappelle;
the Germans started an offensive.
On the Ypres front they attacked
with a secret weapon. On the
day of the attack, the Allied sector
defending was manned by French
African and Canadian troops. They
saw wafted toward them first a
white and then a greenish yellow
cloud, driven by a north wind.
When it reached the trenches, men
began to cough, strangle and often
die in spasmodic agony. Behind
this cloud followed grotesque fig
ures, the Boche in gas masks and
protective covering. This stamped
ed the French Colonial troops, and
they fled in disorder. The Canad
ians immediately diverted some of
their own men to protect their de
serted flank, and fought one of the
greatest defensive actions in his
tory. They would lose positions
after position only to retake them
with the bayonet, and while entire
detachments would be annihilated
they held the line and stopped
the German push. They very prob
ably saved the channel ports.
Again a secret weapon had been
tried and failed, and a determined
and stout hearted infantry had
proved that they had what it takes.
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