DEADLY POISON GAS
USE BY JAPANESE ONLY FOR TOUGH WORK (9 a.m.) CHUNGKING, Dec. 14. Ten Japanese prisoners, questioned bv Chinese intelligence officers in the presence of Allied officers and correspondents, said that Japanese units in Central China were equipped witn deadly blister and suffocating giis shells, but all denied they had ever witnessed the use of these gases, except Sergeant Mitsui Katsuo, who said that the Japanese frequently used gases to capture stubbornlydefended Chinese positions or to escape from Chinese encirclement. Sergeant Katsuo revealed that each platoon of his 39th Division carried four red-coloured cylinders of tear gas and four blue cylinders of sneeze gas. He had also seen green cylinders containing suffocating gas. and some .Japanese units were equipped with blister gas shells. The sergeant said that company commanders have authority to order the use of poisor*gases.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21278, 15 December 1943, Page 4
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