The Archive · 1937

Technical Research Institute

The unexploded bomb is now being kept by the Poison Gas Prevention To Continue Use Section—Central News.

Chinese circles in Shanghai are planning to raise a $20,000,000 foundation find as pensions for the Chinese war dead and wounded, it was learned yesterday. Of this sum, $16,000,000 will be used to. buy Liberty Bonds and the interest therefrom will be used as pensions for families of the war dead and for the maintenance of schools The remaining $4,000,000, it is planned, will be used to help the families of the dead and wounded.

Nanking, Oct. 20.

While the statement signed by foreign medical experts attesting to Japan's use of poison gas on Chinese Gefenders has been widely published, the Japanese counter-charge against the Chinese is merely a pretext for their further employment of a weapon banned by international law, declared a spokesman of the War Ministry at an interview to-day, The Japanese military communique, released in Shanghai last Monday, which claimed China had resorted to

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