POISON GAS
CAPTURED JAPANESE EQUIPMENT SHOWN IN NORTH CHINA I FOR INSPECTION BY ALLIED OFFICERS (By Telegraph—Press Association —copyright (Received This Day, 11.40 a.rnj CHUNGKING, December 22. At the Chinese Army Headquarters in Northern China, officers produced, for visiting British. American and Russian military observers, equipment which had been captured from the Japanese as proof of their statements that the Japanese used gas during recent fighting in the Rice Bowl area. The equipment consisted' of a number of canisters and shells which, it is stated, the Japanese used for tear gas, sneezing gas and suffocating gas. Lieutenant-General Liang Han-ming said the most violent' gas the Japanese used in the Hunan theatre was a suffocating gas which incapacitated victims for an hour or more, but no fatalities had been reported. The exhibits included a mustard gas cylinder dropped from the air on the Suna River last May. It is not claimed that the Japanese used mustard gas in Hunan, but it is asserted that they have used it on other fronts.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 December 1943, Page 4
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