The Tokyo observers also cited several instances of alleged use of bacteria by Chinese troops, They stated that Chinese prisoners taken by the Japanese on August 27 this year revealed that regiments of the Chinese armies had bacteria warfare sections and that natives were employed to contaminate the clothing and provisions of the Japanese forces, When the Japanese attacked Paoshan chen in Kiangsu province the Chinese troops contaminated wells with cholera germs before retreating, it was alleged. Many Japanese soldiers as well as Chinese inhabitants of the town became ill.
After the retreat of Chinese troops ín the Kiating and Tazang areas near Shanghai on November 18, 1997, the Japanese troops found flasks floating in creeks and examination revealed that they contained anthrax germs, the Tokyo observers claimed. It was evidently the plan of the Chinese troops to harass the Japanese by spreading this disease, they said, The origin of an epidemic of cholera which broke out in Kaifeng on July 14 was traced by Japanese experts to the fact that Chinese troops had spread germs, it was further alleged.
On April 18 Japanese troops stationed at Tunglitsun south-west of Shihchiachwang made an inspection of 75 wells and found that 14 of them contained cholera germs, the Tokyo observers charged,
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