TACTICS OF DESPAIR
(Rec. 10.35 a.m.) LONDON, July 12. According to a traveller who has ' arrived in Stockholm from Koenigsberg, 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
Gas War Expected
week in the whole of East Prussia, and the Koenigsherg authorities have ordered all gas equipment to be replaced in shelters from which it had been removed l . The city's inhabitants have been ordered to carry gas masks all day. The crews of -German ships even wore gas masks during manoeuvres by units o| the Baltic fleet based on East Prussian ports. " News of these precautions is causing great anxiety in Berlin.'*
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Evening Star, Issue 25226, 13 July 1944, Page 5
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