A folding postcard from a pencil sketch of an unsuccessful Allied gas attack in Flanders.

Erfolgloser feindlicher Gasangriff in Flandern



Unsuccessful enemy gas attack in Flanders



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Feldpostkarte

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Field postcard

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Sunday, January 31, 1915

"On the last day of January, the German Ninth Army undertook a feint in the direction of Warsaw, designed to distract Russian attention from the main efforts elsewhere. The Battle of Bolimow was not a success. Sub-zero weather negated the first use of poison gas (xylyl bromide) by the Germans — which the Russians failed to report to their western allies. The Russians committed 11 divisions to defend the 6-mile-wide front, losing 40 000 men in just 3 days."

Quotation Context

Source

The First World War: Germany and Austria Hungary 1914-1918 by Holger H. Herwig, page 135, copyright © 1997 Holger H. Herwig, publisher: Arnold, publication date: 1997

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1915-01-31, 1915, January, poison gas, gas, Poison gas