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News extracts from the New York Times, and a broadcast from Chungking, China in 1942, on Japan's use of bacteriological warfare against China. Radio broadcast presents information, and states that results are usually kept as a military secret.

Report by Ray F. Chesley on the inconclusive evidence of Japanese bacteriological warfare in China in late 1941, early 1942.

Transmission of the Epidemiological Report no. 4 from the US Embassy in Chungking to the Secretary of State on May, 5 1942. It discusses the human and rat plague situation in Changteh and the dangers of it being a rice exporting center .

Translation by the US National Censorship of an extract of the article "Enemy employs disease-germ warfare" published in 1942 by the Chinese newspaper Chung Sai Yat Po.

Memorandums for Wilhelm D. Styer from Howard I. Cole on October 16, 1944 regarding the capture of a secret Japanese document about "bacterial strategy".

Letter to the Chief of Staff from R.B. Lowry on November 17, 1944 regarding a prisoner of war testimony on biological warfare being carried out in Nanking and developed by the Water Purification Unit.

Letter to the Chief of Staff from R.B. Lowry on November 28, 1944 regarding plague outbreaks in Thailand and Burma.

News correspondences highlighted by the US National Censorship regarding Mexican healthcare and Japanese BW on October 22, 1942.

Correspondence (telegram?) of a radio-transmission from Chungking to Europe on December 3, 1942 regarding proof that Japanese used BW.

Technical Intelligence Bulletin by E.H. Julian on January 2, 1945 regarding what constitutes biological warfare and how it was enacted.