The Chinese command in the south was preparing for large-scale poison gas operations in an attempt to check ihe Japanese advance, Domei reports said. Chinese troops will be supplied with poison gas shells manufactured in a factory established last year in Canton for such an emergency as Kwangtung appears to be facing at present, these reports declared.
7 Materials for the production of poison gas will be furnished through ihe agents of a certain Power, the reports claimed.
Kwangtung military authorities will ask Gen. Chiang Kai-shek to send a large number of Soviet fighting planes of the 1-16 type to help in the defence of the south, the same: reports declared. Soviet planes of this type are being used on the Yangtze front.
Hundreds of Chinese inhabitants of Japanese Move Announced
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