POISON GAS
USED AGAINST PEASANT VICTIMS. BY GERMANS IN KALININ AREA. (Received This Day. 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, June 28. Moscow announced that a German punitive expedition executed nineteen peasants with poison gas in the Kalinin area, for aiding guerillas. The victims included a woman holding a baby, who was found sitting in a cellar. A doctor reported that none of the bodies were wounded, but that the respiratory organs were charred and that the hearts of the victims appeared to be paralysed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 June 1942, Page 4
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