JAPANESE USED GAS
CHINESE .ALLEGATION FIGHTING IN HUPEH (11 a.m.) CHUNGKING, March 23. A charge that the Japanese used gr.f in a battle in the south Hupeh pro . vince where the Japanese are striving to safeguard their communications to Ic'hang, is made in a Chinese communique. It Says that after a bitter counterattack in one sector, the Japanese, in retaliation, resorted to’ gas attacks. Over 100 Chinese officers and men were affected, suffering skin blisters, sore throats, vomiting, suffocation and stomach pains. The communique says that these mean tactics to camouflage defeat have been reported on many previous occasions.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21051, 24 March 1943, Page 3
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