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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.

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 .

Excerpts from a letter of Dr. Lim on the development of Plague in Changteh dated March 10th, 1942 and transmitted to the Department of State May 16th, 1942 by Roger S. Greene.

Statement from the US Army Forces Pacific Ocean Areas to the War Department on October 3rd, 1944; regarding the transfer of a thousand plague infected rats from Shanghai to Nanking.

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".

Military Attache Report by the Military Intelligence Division on November 3, 1944 regarding information obtained on disease outbreaks in Fukien, China.

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.