USE OF GAS
ON CHINESE WAR FRONTS EVIDENCE OF JAPANESE PRISONERS. EQUIPMENT OF UNITS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) CHUNGKING, December 13. Ten Japanese prisoners, when questioned by Chinese intelligence officers in the presence of Allied officers and correspondents, said that Japanese units in central China were equipped with deadly blister and suffocating gas shells, but all denied that they had ever witnessed' the use of these gasses except Sergeant Mitsui Katsuo, whu said the Japanese frequently used gases to capture stubbornly-defended Chinese positions or to escape from Chinese encirclement. Katsuo revealed that each platoon of his 39th Division carried four redcoioured [cylinders of tear gas and four blue cylinders of sneeze gas. He had also seen green cylinders containing suffocating gas, and some Japanese units were equipped with blister gasshells. Katsuo said that the company commanders had authority to order the use of poison gases.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 December 1943, Page 3
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