Japanese Accused Of Germ Warfare
Received Thursday, 11.25 p.m. j LONDON, Dec. 29. 1 Bread rolls infeeted with typhoid and] para'typhoid fever germs were given to! Chinese prisoners wfio were then re-j leased so that they eould spread the in- 1 fection, achording to a Moscow radio ! report of the Russian germ warfare; trial today. The radio said a witness; iiamed Furuichi had told the Court at IChabarovsk, Siberia, that the rolls were issued on orders from Lieu.-Gen-eral Shiro Ishii and were known as "Ishii rolls." FuruicM, a medieal asBistant, worked with the Kwangtung nrmv's leading germ warfare outfit, "unit 731." He testified after the tribunal had completed the hearing of twelve Japanese defendants alT of whom pleaded guilty. Furuichi said that in Central China in 1942, he had helped bake the rrtlls. ' ' Subsequently I a seientihe workor told me the germs j of paratyphoid fever proved to be the.' most efFecfive in provoking an epidemie among the Chinese population," asid. "
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Chronicle (Levin), 30 December 1949, Page 5
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