BACTERIOLOGICAL WARFARE
(Rec. 6.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, Feb. 27. According to The New York Post’s correspondent, Fletcher Pratt, the Japanese are already waging bacteriological warfare. This was first reported last November when Japanese planes dropped foodstuffs and clothing at Changteh after which the Chinese using them developed symptoms of bubonic plague. Mr Pratt says that in December after the Pearl Harbour- incident Japanese planes exuded what were apparently white fumes, but proved to be living fleas with cultures of bubonic and typhus. Fish and eggs similarly infected were dropped so as to attract rats and thus spread infection.
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Southland Times, Issue 24682, 2 March 1942, Page 5
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