Don Martin diary entry for Tuesday, May 28, 1918:
Stayed in Neufchateau and wrote letters and
some mail stories. Spent the evening at the club.
Don Martin on Tuesday, May 28, wrote about American forces being bombarded with gas shells. The dispatch was published in the New York Herald on Wednesday, May 29, 1918.
‘WEARY
OF WAR,’ GERMANS’ PLEA TO AMERICANS
Prisoner Who Deserted Says Many of His
Comrades Are Eager to Quit
TROOPS SHIFTED FROM EAST FRONT
Enemy Trying to Convince Pershing’s Men
of the Presence of a Big Force
By DON MARTIN
[Special
cable to the Herald]
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE,
Tuesday
German prisoners taken by the Americans
say that most of the men opposed to the Americans returned from the Russian
front. Their leaders want them to keep the Americans constantly harassed and to
cause the suspicion that a great German force is near at hand. One German who
deserted yesterday said many others want to desert, as they are weary of war.
The net result of the powerful gas attack
launched against the Americans yesterday in the Luneville sector and later when
patrols attacked in this sector was five dead Germans and no deaths of
Americans.
The Lorraine sector gas attack lends
strength to the belief that the war will develop even more frightfulness, due
to the Germans’ fiendish determination to fight with the deadliest gases. Here
the Germans set off five hundred large phosgene gas shells from projections
recently implanted in the sector in order to give to the Americans a taste of
what the Canadians got at Ypres.
It is known the Germans are employing
electrically connected batteries, connected so as to fire simultaneously large
gas shells which contain each more than three gallons.
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