NAZIS MAY USE GAS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1944, Page 5

NAZIS MAY USE GAS

Last Hope Against Russians Rec. 10.30 a.m LONDON, July 12.

According to a traveller who has arrived in Stockholm from Konigsberg, the Nazis are preparing to use gas to keep the Russians from German soil. He says that gas warfare is expected to begin when the Red Army reaches East Prussia.

Expecting Allied reprisals, the Germans 'are taking anti-gas precautions.

. "Anti-gas exercises were ordered last week in the whole of East Prussia and Konigsberg," he said. "The - authorities have ordered all gas equipment to be replaced in shelters from which it has been removed. The inhabitants of the city have been ordered to carry gas masks all day. "Tbe crews of German ships even wore gas masks during manoeuvres by- units of the Baltic fleet based on East Prussian ports. The news of these precautions is causing great anxiety in Berlin."

proaches to Kaunas, says Reuters Moscow correspondent. The Russians are coming up against a harder core of resistance, with the Germans doing all they can to stop the rot which is threatening the bastions guarding the roads to East Prussia and the Baltic.

Judging from the earlier reports of the Soviet break-through barrages, East Prussians can now hear the crash of Russian artillery. This will be the first time during the war people living in German territory have heard Soviet guns. Russian guns at the other end of the front are roaring before Pinsk after a push through the Pripet marshlands, which by last night had brought them to -within seven miles of the city.