GERM WARFARE UNIT
Japanese Sentenced By Russians Terms Of Imprisonment NZPA—Copyright Rec. 8 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 31. The Soviet tribunal yesterday sentenced 12 former Japanese soldiers alleged to be germ war experts. Four were sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment, and the other eight to terms ranging from two to 20 years’ corrective labour. The four who received the maximum sentence were: General Otozo Yamada, former Commander-in-Chief of the Kwangtung Army, Lieutenantgeneral Riuji Kajitsuka, of the Medical Corps, Takatsu Takahashi, of the Medical Services, and Kiyoshi Kawashima, a doctor said to have headed the germ warfare research unit 731.
During, the trial at Khabarovsk (Siberia), the Russians claimed' that the Japanese had planned large-scale germ warfare through the use of infected rodents, lice and animals. It was also claimed that porcelain bombs containing germ-infected fleas were discovered by the Russian authorities. The Russian prosecutor at the trial said Germany and Japan had planned germ warfare but that they were foiled by the Soviet Armies.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27278, 3 January 1950, Page 5
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