25 FEBRUARY 1949, Page 18

GAS-CHAMBERS

Sta,—In the Spectator of February 4th Janus implies that there was a gas- chamber in operation at Belsen concentration camp. In fact, there was no gas-chamber there, and most of the many thousands of deaths there were caused by starvation and typhus.—Yours faithfully,

J. RAYMOND PHILLIPS.

Oxford and Cambridge University Club, Pall Mall, S.W.r.