DISEASE AS WEAPON
REPORTED JAPANESE, ATTEMPTS. PLAGUE & OTHER CULTURES. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) NEW YORK, February 27. According to the New York “Post’s” correspondent, Mr Fletcher Pratt, the Japanese are already waging bacteriological warfare. This was first reported last November when Japanese planes dropped foodstuffs and clothing at Changtch, 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 which proved to be living fleas with cultures of bubonic typhys. Fish eggs similarly infected were dropped so as to attract rats and thus spread the infection.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 March 1942, Page 4
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