Israeli officials said today that special salvage units were examining two trainloads of chemicals believed to include ingredients for making poison gas in mobile laboratories which were found in the Sinai Peninsula.
The officials said that the chemicals were of two different types, one made in Communist China and the other in Egypt, and that both have been positively identified by army experts here. Egypt has been using poison gas on a large scale in its undeclared war on the royalist regime in Yemen, both against troops and the civilian population.
The officials said that Israeli troops also found in the Sinai two giant Soviet-made gas trucks, fitted with containers for two different kinds of chemicals and linked by pipes to two gas chambers, each about the height of a man and fitted with airtight doors. The trucks were manufactured by the USSR “State Automobile Works” and, according to documents found with the vehicles, were handed over to the Egyptians on April 1.1965. A special gas chamber also was found on the Egyptian air base at El Arish, in the Sinai.
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