CHARGE BY MOSCOW
Germ War Alleged
(Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, July 4. A Soviet commentator today accused the United States of stepping up preparedness for germ warfare and said the Pentagon chiefs should be put in a strait jacket, the American Associated Press reported. Moscow Radio broadcast the accusations over its home service. “In 1949, the United States Army tested biological means of warfare on the Eskimos of Canada, causing an epidemic among them,” the commentator asserted. “Poisonous chemical substances were tried out on the detainees of prisoner of war camps in the Korean adventure,” the radio
said. "In 1959, the. Americans Introduced the Colorado beetle into the German Democratic (East Germany) and Czechoslovak Republics. “In November, 1958, the Chiang Kai-shek forces used chemical shells, supplied by the Americans, jn bombarding units of the Chinese National Liberation Army. These shells were filled with * poisonous substance with a prolonged effect," the radio added.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28939, 6 July 1959, Page 11
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