POISON GAS
USE BY THE JAPANESE IN CHINA BRITISH INVESTIGATION. POLICY OF MAXIMUM AID TO CHUNGKING. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) RUGBY, October 23. Mr R. K. Law, Foreign Undersecretary, answering a question in the House of Commons, stated that reports that gas had been used by the Japanese in recent fighting' around Ichang were now being investigated. As to whether an intensification of war brutality, especially against civilians, would be taken into account .in any ’ assistance respecting war equipment which Britain might be able to spare for China, he said it was the policy of the British Government to do all it could to help China maintain her independence.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 October 1941, Page 6
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