BERLIN -- The Germans are continuing to advance in the region to the north. Northeast of Ypres they have stormed and taken the canal town of Lizerne, on the west bank of the Yser. Additional prisoners ...

Until mid-December 1914, von Falkenhayn considered poison gas, already outlawed under The Hague Convention, “unchivalrous”. But with the military stalemate of trench warfare delaying German ambitions ...

One hundred years ago, a green cloud of chlorine gas drifted gently towards Allied trenches around Ypres, promising an agonising death as Germany sought to break the bloody stalemate World War I had ...

When chivalry died in the trenches of Ypres a century ago with the dawn of chemical warfare, Canada didn’t know what hit it. Day after day, conflicting reports grappled with the nature of the greenish ...