| Item title: | Defence against bacterial warfare |
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| Location: | Australian War Memorial (AWM55 5/34) View information about obtaining a copy of this document |
AJRP details | |
| AJRP module: | Australian War Memorial official records |
| AJRP series: | Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) publications |
| AJRP sub-series: | ATIS enemy publications |
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Location details | |
| Institution: | Australian War Memorial |
| Call number: | AWM55 5/34 |
| Inst. series: | AWM55 |
| Inst. sub-series: | AWM55 5/- |
| Item: | EP-381 |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 13 pages |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Information report |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 31/5/1945 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | EPIDEMICS, DISEASES, CHOLERA, CHEMICAL WARFARE, SABOTAGE |
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| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Shanghai [China–Hong Kong] Luzon [Philippines] |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) translation of a Japanese publication captured in central Luzon between 14 and 21 March 1945 during the US campaign to recapture the Philippines. This item is an extract from an undated file entitled "Defense against bacterial warfare". It contains an exposition of the characteristics and effects of bacterial warfare, the preparation in foreign countries (notably Russia), probable targets and methods of attack, and detailed defensive counter-measures. A supplement gives general notes on poisonous substances used in warfare and incudes a diagram of possible methods of attack and infection. This item also alleges that the Russians dropped dysentery bacteria from aircraft during the second Nomonhan Incident (a tank battle between Russian and Japanese forces in August-September 1939 on the Russian-Manchurian border which resulted in a disastrous defeat for the Japanese), that the Chinese contaminated water supplies in Shanghai and Kiukiang with cholera bacteria and that a Russian agent caused an anthrax epidemic along the Hokkoku Line in 1934. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:04:08 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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