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Series of short reports from Tokyo to the US, Central and South Americas and a report from US Headquarters in India in 1942-1944 regarding diverse epidemics in China over the time period.

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.

Extract of the Chinese Press Report "Japanese attempts to create Plague in North China" by the Embassy of the US in Chungking to Military Intelligence Service, Washington D.C. on May, 1 1942.

Telegram received by the Chinese Embassy in Washington DC from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Government statements recounting Dr. P.Z. King's statement on Japanese BW, dated April 6, 1942.

Telegram enumerating the different occurrences of Japanese aircrafts dropping plague-infected materials on Chinese cities.

Epidemiological Report presented to the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, reporting on number of cases, deaths and infected pests, on the plague situation in Hunan, Chekiang, Fukien and Kwantung.

Technical report on the alleged BW incident at Changteh, which concludes that the outbreak was linked to the scattering of plague infected materials over Changteh by an enemy aircraft on November 4th 1941.

Report to the Secretary of State, Washington D.C., on the plague situation in occupied China during the Winter of 1941, as well as the prevalence of the disease in the different regions beforehand.

Cover letter by the E.M.S.T.S to the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China in December 1941 confirming BW waged by the enemy in Changteh, Hunan (missing report).

Letter updating on the investigation on the plague epidemic in Changteh, Hunan from the US Embassy in Chungking, Szechuan.