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Under its biggest, blackest headlines, the New York Post last week published the story that readers of Sunday supplements have waited for since World War II began. Military Expert Fletcher Pratt told how the Japanese had tried to spread bubonic plague from planes over the Chinese city of Changteh...
...people in Changteh in Hunan Province ran for cover as a Japanese plane skimmed over their roof tops. The plane circled for an hour. It dropped no bombs. But on the ground near the two main gates to the city, scattered grains of rice and shreds of cotton cloth were later found. The police destroyed them, but saved some samples for testing. The samples were full of Pasteurella pestis, the short oval bacillus of bubonic plague...
There had been no bubonic plague in Changteh for ten generations, but within a week there were six cases. All died. Dr. Lim flew from Chungking to superintend the autopsies. They showed the marks of the "black death"-the black tongue and dark spots on the skin from which the plague got its name, the hugely swollen lymph glands of the groin and armpits. Careful laboratory tests confirmed the autopsy findings...
...Chicago Daily News's dependable Archibald T. Steele told what had happened to a Canadian. While Canadian Missionary Minnie Shipley lay dying of typhus in a Canadian mission hospital in Changteh (Hunan), demonstrators drove away Chinese employes of the hospital, isolated the building until the patient died...
...week citing incidents which helped explain this terrific casualty. Like the ostrich, the Chinese believes that if he cannot see his attacker, he is safe. When Changsha was bombed, citizens rushed under trees and dived into bushes, murmuring thanks for their safety. Best example of Chinese ARP came from Changteh, 100 miles north of Changsha. There police systematically shot every dog they could find because the city's elders decided that their barking attracted Japanese bombing planes...