The Germans began at this time the use of asphyxiating gases in their attacks.

It was just nine o'clock when the officers ordered us into line, ready to advance,sac au dos, bayonets fixed, musettes full of grenades and asphyxiating bombs.

"Asphyxiating effect.

What with the new war deviltry, asphyxiating gaswith which the battle began, and which beat back the line for miles by the terror of its surpriseand the destruction of the Lusitania on the 7th, it has been a hard month.

That levelled at you by my neighbour would have sent to ten times your distance a small ball, which, bursting, would have asphyxiated every living thing for several yards around.