Chapter 10 Chapter 7 The Devil's Sister

After Unit 731 moved to the military special zone near Pingfang, about 20 kilometers south of Harbin in 1939, strange "disasters" continued to occur in Harbin and its surrounding areas. The so-called "disaster" is the sudden prevalence of various acute infectious diseases. In the summer of 1940, a mixed plague suddenly broke out in Nong'an County, Jilin Province, about 50 kilometers northwest of Xinjing (now Changchun), the capital of Manchuria at that time. At the beginning, the plague occurred in the county seat, and after a few days, it spread to the rural areas on the outskirts of the city.The disease spread rapidly throughout Nong'an County like a prairie fire.

There are five types of plague: 1. Bubonic plague; 2. Pneumonic plague; 3. Skin plague; 4. Eye plague; 5. Plague septicemia. The plague that occurred in Nong'an County was a mixture of two or more types of plague. Patients appeared one after another in the county and died one by one.After the emergency report of the plague was sent to the headquarters of the Kwantung Army's Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department stationed in Pingfang, the headquarters dispatched sanitation soldiers to disinfect, but there was almost nothing they could do about the rapid plague. More than 300 people died. This was the worst plague disaster in Nong'an County.The Kwantung Army authorities put the death toll at more than 120.Then strange things happened one after another.Typhoid fever occurred centering on Fujiadian area of ​​Harbin city.The so-called Fujiadian is the aforementioned Great Devil’s Cave.In a blink of an eye, typhoid fever spread from this area to Harbin, and many people died.

This typhoid fever epidemic involved nearly 100,000 Japanese living in Harbin at that time.Among them, there was such an incident: a Japanese businessman who dealt in stationery had a child who fell ill, and the mother who nursed him fell ill due to infection. Later, after the father nursed the two of them, he also contracted typhoid fever.As a result, the whole family died.There were more and more typhoid patients, and ordinary hospitals could not accommodate them, so they had to be sent to Harbin Army Hospital. "The Harbin Higher Girls' School (later renamed Fuji Higher Girls' School) where I went to school also had frequent patients, so the holiday was released early, but the portraits of 20 students were hung at the memorial service after the holiday. The memory is very clear. According to rumors, it was 'a secret agent who sprinkled germs in the water source'... This was a storm-like event that started suddenly and ended in a short period of time." Talking about the typhoid commotion that year, a former resident K.S., a female student in Harbin, recalled this way.

At the same time that typhoid fever broke out in Harbin, plague suddenly broke out in Sanwu District, a poor area about one kilometer north of Xinjing (now Changchun) Railway Station. The place name "Three No Matters" means that Russia, China and Japan don't care.After the Russo-Japanese War, in order to avoid international disputes between Japan and Russia, a military buffer zone was set up near the Xinjing Station of the South Manchuria Railway. People, Chinese, Koreans and Mongolians, etc., formed a magic cave like a small Fujiadian. In his book "Military Trial of Bacterial Warfare", Yamada Kiyosaburo wrote about the scene of the plague outbreak in the three areas, and he made the following description:

"At that time, 700 households and 5,000 poor people lived in a small and limited area of ​​Sanwu. Epidemic prevention teams dressed in white flooded into this area like an avalanche, isolated patients, forcibly checked, vaccinated, Disinfection of households, etc. The whole devil's den turned upside down like a hornet's nest, and fell into indescribable chaos." The occurrence of infectious diseases is not limited to these.Then, in the Manchurian pioneering group in Acheng County, Binjiang Province, 20 kilometers northeast of Harbin City, on the south bank of the Songhua River, something like this happened: a large number of sheep and horses they raised suffered from unexplained diseases and died continuously.

Behind the spread of a series of infectious diseases, what is hidden? Regarding the various acute infectious diseases that occurred in Harbin and nearby cities in the summer of 1940, the Kwantung Army authorities explained various reasons. The epidemic of plague in Nong'an County was "due to the fact that rats from Daxing'an Mountains rushed into the urban area and spread the plague fleas to other people's homes."The typhoid fever that occurred in Harbin centered on Fujiadian area and the plague patients in the three areas were considered to be "unhygienic food streets and incomplete rodent control".

"...In the big sheep camp of the group camp, there are about 1,000 sheep raised, and two or three coolies (referring to hired Chinese shepherds) herd and raise them every day. The ewes give birth to lambs, and the lambs give birth to lambs. Sheep...should have kept breeding but dwindled. Instead of being stolen or slaughtered, an unexplained disease succumbed to a large number of sheep, which were reduced to less than 200 by the end of the war , We are tired of eating mutton every day, the peeled skin is coated with salt, sent to a tanning factory (operated by an ordinary person in the pioneering group) for processing, and then the processed tanned leather is used to make coats, vests and socks Wait, because the winter in Manchuria is very cold, it is very popular among the members of the development team..."

At that time, Hiroshi Kazama, a member of the Tianli Pioneering Group who lived near Sankeshu, sent a letter regarding the "incomprehensible large number of continuous deaths of sheep".At the same time that the sheep died of illness, Unit 731 sent investigation troops into the development team, and finally settled the matter with "unexplained reasons". The spread and end of acute infectious diseases have the following common phenomena: the pattern is: 1. the sudden outbreak of infectious diseases; Residents, and demolished houses in areas where infectious diseases occurred, rectified streets, and forced patients to undergo inspection and isolation.

For example: No matter how many people died of the plague in the Xiaomoku, but when the plague turmoil came to an end, the Kwantung Army ordered all the residents to move to the temporary village of "Songjiawazi" two kilometers away. The engineering team blew up all the streets and alleys in the name of "complete epidemic prevention" (according to "Military Trial of Bacterial Warfare" by Kiyosaburo Yamada). When typhoid fever broke out in Fujiadian, when personnel from the medical department of Unit 731 came to disinfect, isolate patients, and inspect residents, they also sent many Kwantung Army gendarmerie members, secret service personnel, and engineering team personnel.

According to the memories of relevant personnel, "In the name of preventing typhoid fever, the Kwantung Army Gendarmerie searched the places where White Russians and Chinese gathered in Fujiadian at that time—the underground gambling hall—where armed Chinese bandits held and captured many Russians and Chinese under the pretext of 'quarantine prevention', and then destroyed the building". A gendarme who once worked in the former headquarters of the Harbin gendarmerie provided the following testimony: "Although there is no clear basis for concluding that this is the case... However, I heard such a thing at the time: Russians and Chinese of unknown origin in Harbin City were about to move, and spies sneaked into Fujiadian in an attempt to spy on the 731 located in the bungalow. The secrets of the troops, the deployment of troops and the content of equipment of the Kwantung Army, etc., must be taken as an opportunity to conduct a thorough search of the Great Demon Cave and put it under our overall control. This is what the Gendarmerie Command often studies The thing . . . the occurrence of typhoid fever offers us one of the best opportunities."

In Unit 731, there is a group called "Mite" with a special mission. They go out in disguise at night and sneak into Harbin.These people belong to the equipment department and the third department, and they are all selected people who are good at fighting and foreign languages. What kind of tasks are the "Mites" personnel doing?Only a very small number of leaders such as Commander Ishii know. The "Mite" personnel took advantage of the night to ride in blacked-out cars and left the army without knowing their whereabouts, sometimes returning to the army for more than a month. "Business trip to Nanjing", "Business trip to Hailar", "contact work"... these are the names of "Mite" personnel disappearing. At that time, a person who worked in the special squad (in charge of managing "Maruta") said: "Sometimes the 'Maruta' that has been used as an infectious experiment is quietly transported to areas outside the army at night." It is suspected that the typhoid fever and plague that occurred in various parts of Northeast China in 1940 was likely to be a secret "joint operation" conducted by Unit 731, the Kwantung Army Gendarmerie Headquarters, and the secret service. Then, what happened to the "unexplained sheep disease" that was rampant in some areas of the "Manchurian and Mongolian Pioneering Group" at that time? In fact, in addition to Unit 731, there is another bacterial unit in the Kwantung Army called "Junma Epidemic Prevention Factory" (Manchurian Unit 100). The top leader of the 100th Manchurian Army formed in 1935 was Lieutenant General Takahashi Takatoshi, the then head of the Veterinary Department of the Kwantung Army.Under the leadership of Lieutenant General Veterinary Takahashi, Major General Veterinary Wakamatsu served as the commander of the 100th Unit. Unit 100 is a new bacterial warfare unit targeting livestock and plants based on the research and experiment talents of Unit 731.The base of the troops was located near Mengjiatun, about 10 kilometers south of Xinjing (now Changchun).There are a total of 800 troops, which is slightly smaller than the 731 troops.On a large piece of land, a very solid concrete two-story building and many research rooms were built. Unit 100 is divided into the first and second divisions engaged in the actual combat research of germ warfare.The organization of the second part is as follows: Lesson 1: Manufacture anthrax bacteria and conduct relevant research experiments. Lesson 2: Manufacture of gangrene bacteria and conduct relevant research experiments. Lessons 3 and 4: Manufacture other epidemic zooepidemic bacteria and carry out relevant research experiments. Lesson 5: Manufacture smut and leaf spot fungus, and conduct relevant research experiments. Lesson 6: Manufacture of Pest Bacteria and research on the manufacture of other chemical poisons. The anthrax bacteria that appear here include two types that attack humans and animals and those that attack plants. Unit 100 researched and produced mainly anthrax bacteria that attack animals.This disease, called anthrax, is a very stubborn anthrax bacterium.After entering the animal body from a wound or mixed with food, it becomes ill and causes sepsis.While having a high fever, the mucous membranes of the whole body will bleed, and the symptoms will intensify within half a day or one or two days and they will die.It's a pretty serious disease. The so-called melioidosis is a specific infectious disease of horses and donkeys.After infection, a large amount of nasal mucus flows from the nostrils, and death usually occurs within two weeks.In addition to horses, dogs and sheep can also be infected.Due to the lack of effective methods of prevention and treatment, this disease is known as the enemy of livestock.It can also infect people, and when it is severe, it almost kills people within two or three weeks. Unit 100 used these germs to conduct experiments and research on the elimination of military horses of the Chinese and Soviet armies and livestock in rural areas. Anthrax and melioidosis can also be transmitted to humans.If cattle, horses or sheep injected with germs are quietly put into enemy territory, military horses and livestock will be infected one after another, and people who raise cattle and horses will also be infected. This is where Unit 100 focuses. Unit 100 has an annual production capacity of 1,000 kilograms of anthrax bacteria, 500 kilograms of mallet fungus, and 100 kilograms of smut bacteria. "At the beginning of the war against the Soviet Union, if the Japanese army retreated to the front line of Daxinganling due to operational reasons, they would use bacteria and highly toxic substances to pollute all rivers, reservoirs and wells, so that all crops would be ruined and cattle and sheep would die." This is the Kwantung Army. The main tasks assigned by the command to the 100 troops. The "experimental research" of Unit 100 is not simply an activity on the table or in the research room, and "Marutai" is also used here. "...In August and September 1944, experiments were carried out on living people. The subjects were allowed to swallow hypnotics and poisons without paying attention, so that they did not know the content of the experiment. The subjects included seven or eight Chinese and Russians. The drugs used in the experiment include North Korean morning glory, heroin, castor beans, etc. They mixed these poisons into food, and let the victimized experimenters eat this poisonous drug five or six times within two weeks. Meals. I think the soup was mainly mixed with Korean sunflowers, the porridge with heroin, and the cigarettes with heroin and bacteria. The subjects drank the soup mixed with Korean morning glory for 30 minutes It fell into a sleep state after an hour, and could sleep for five and a half hours in a row." ——This is the cruel fact that Sanyou, a member of the sixth class who once worked in Unit 100, confessed in the Khabarovsk military trial court to conduct live experiments. As a result of this kind of experiment, "Maruta" became weaker and weaker. When the experiment was no longer possible, the personnel of Unit 100 let the weakened "Maruta" have diarrhea, and then gave "cyanic acid compound" as medicine. They inject, poison them. Unit 731 threw the ashes of "Maruta" in the "Bone Tomb", while Unit 100 buried the body of "Maruta" in the army's livestock cemetery. Unit 731 and Unit 100 are a pair of devil sisters who play with bacteria. In the summer of 1942, on the banks of the Darpur River that flows near the border of the Suman region, about 30 people picked up weeds and walked along the river beach. This is Major Muramoto of the Manchurian 100th Unit of the Kwantung Army's Anti-epidemic Plant, as well as his subordinate officers, researchers and technicians. Although they were not many in number, they had a lot of equipment and equipment. They brought in two large inflatable rubber boats, more than a dozen tall metal containers, large suitcases, glass containers, buckets, ladles, etc.These things are wrapped tightly with cloth, and no one knows what they are from the outside. A man who looked like a commander stood at the forefront.He used binoculars to observe the lower reaches of the Darpur River.Tens of kilometers away from here is the territory of the Soviet Union. Only by telescope for reconnaissance, there is no trace of the Soviet border guards. As soon as the commander raised his hand, the group stopped.They began to assemble the equipment by hand in the aquatic plants as high as people.The two rubber boats were fully inflated and their sterns were tied to the shore with ropes. They then loaded large metal containers and buckets onto the dinghy.Since they were working at noon in midsummer, their military uniforms were soaked in sweat. A researcher from Unit 100 was on board each rubber boat. He paddled skillfully and the rubber boat sailed into the middle of the Delpur River.When the first rubber boat traveled to about 100 meters, the second rubber boat started again.The boat also contained what appeared to be metal containers and buckets, and a researcher took to the oars. The shore was held tightly by ropes, at which point the researchers opened the lids of the containers and lowered them into the river from two rubber boats.The container contained a large quantity of mallet fungus.Malleus is the enemy of livestock such as horses and sheep, which has been mentioned earlier. The container is underwater and slowly spits out mallet fungus continuously.The Darpur River joins the Ergun River not far downstream, and the Ergun River flows into the territory of the Soviet Union. The purpose of Unit 100's experiment this time is obvious. They tried to avoid the surveillance of the Soviet border guards and put a large amount of gangrene bacteria in the place closest to the border. Once the river water that has been sufficiently polluted by the mallet bacteria flows into the territory of the Soviet Union, when the mallet bacteria swims near a certain river bank, livestock and people drink it, and as a result, many livestock and people in the Soviet Union will die... This is the experiment of the 100 troops attempt. The two rubber boats slowly moved upstream within a range of about one kilometer, while continuing to spread the mallet fungus on the river.At that time, Japan and the Soviet Union were not yet in a state of war, and the excuse was an experiment, but germ warfare was actually being carried out. "The name of the exercise is the summer exercise of Unit 100's Sixth Class...At that time, about 12 kilograms of melioids were taken out from the troops. The rejoining exercise team reported that 'the experiment is complete'. It is estimated that all the melis were exiled in the river. .” This is the testimony of members of the original 100 troops.As for what happened downstream, the average person is unknown. Such "experiments" were often carried out by the 100 troops, regardless of their size.The "unexplained mass continuous deaths of sheep" in the Manchurian pioneering group may be the result of the secondary disaster caused by the secret experiment conducted by the 100 troops on the Soviet-Manchurian border! Unit 100 also maintains a secret ranch 80 kilometers northwest of the city of Hailar near the Soviet-Manchurian border.There are 500 sheep and 100 cattle and horses raised in the pasture. These livestock were bought by the 100th Army from the residents of North Hung Yen Province in China, where they ate fodder leisurely until the end of the war. However, the 100th Army did not raise livestock to make them fat, they have been "preserving" this batch of livestock. In April 1944, Unit 100 sent a secret force to North Hung Yen Province, ordering this force to inspect and count the "total number of livestock" in Hung Yen Province.According to statistics, the total number of livestock in the province is about 1.5 million. "Once Japan and the Soviet Union start a war and the Soviet army crosses the border, it is estimated that all the livestock in North Khingan Province will be transported back to the Soviet Union as spoils of war. At that time, we will let go of the sheep, horses, and cattle that have been injected with the gangrene bacteria and retreat. In two weeks' time there will be an outbreak of contagious disease in the stockyards . . . " This is the purpose of the 100 troops raising sheep and other livestock in the pasture leisurely. Like Unit 731, the actual situation of Unit 100 has not been fully clarified to this day.In Unit 100, many veterinarians and researchers are attached as civilian staff, and they have been using "Marutai" to conduct research on livestock infectious diseases and poisons.