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Ordeal by Fire, and by Water: British Troops Sustaining an Attack by German Flammenwerfer
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The use of liquid fire, it will not be forgotten, was one of the amenities which Germany is proud of having introduced into modern war, and which the Allies, in self-defence, have been compelled to imitate. Both the British Army and the French are now duly equipped for repaying the enemy in his own coin. The German flame-projecting machine is known as flammenwerfer, and a new type of apparatus, called, from its shape, the ” life-belt ” flame-thrower, has recently made its appearance. A specimen was captured by the Canadians at Lens. ” The liquid fire does not leap,” says an eye-witness : ” it seems to come over in several isolated streams. It will burn for quite a time on the ground, and lights up the surroundings with a pale-yellow glare. If the
fire strikes men, they roll in the mud. During the bad weather, when the ground is in a swampy condition, progress in an advance is of necessity extremely slow. It is curious to watch a man from a distance as he moves forward. He looks as though he were dancing, but it is only that he is trying to pull his feet out of the tenacious clay, in which his boots often remain. Shell-holes on such ground are seldom seen, being full of liquid mud : generally a man first discovers one by falling into it. The whole country of No Man’s Land is simply one quagmire, and a ‘ charge ‘ takes place at a speed of about one and a-half miles an hour, as it is necessary to probe for almost every step.” -Drawing Copyrighted a the Un’,rtd Sttes alll C. ,ida.
undefinedA German Liquid-Fire Attack against British Troops: A Scene on a No-Man’s-Land Quagmire on the Western Front
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