The Archive · 1937

Demonstration Given

Japanese technical and medical officers actually demonstrated the use of the gas in a mild form by opening a trench-mortar shell which it is alleged Japanese troops seized when they occupied a Chinese position at Tapingkiang, about three quarters of a mile northwest of Liuhong, on October 14. red marking near the top, different fins, and the letter F and the numeral 1 (ringed) as Japanese chemical warfare section, stated that the gas emitted b; shell smelled like phosgene asphyxiating qualities, He elaborate tests bad been determine the nature of the gas that it had been found, Ji analysts, that it contained tetrachloride, phosgene and titani tetrachloride, He said that if missile had exploded in the roo Japanese sole,, protected by mask, opening up alleged Chinese trench mortar gas shell. persons present The fuming shell was then passed round for the delectation of the correspondents,

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