Mrs. Liu, an old lady of nearly sixty, was Wang’s landlady and looked after her child. Picture from  ISC Leport

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예순에 가까운 류 할머니는 왕씨의 집주인이고 그녀의 아이를 돌봤습니다. ISC Leport의 사진입니다.

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According to testimony from her landlady — identified by investigators only as Mrs. Liu, “an old lady of nearly sixty” — Wang usually wore the mask and gloves that insect collectors were mandated to wear. They weren’t supposed to touch any insects directly, but use “twigs with sticky ends” to move them or pick them up.

Yet, the old landlady thought Wang “was young and impetuous.” She wasn’t sure Wang always took the proper safety precautions.

In all, eleven witnesses were interviewed by the full ISC commission in the matter of Wang’s death. There may have been other witnesses interviewed by individual ISC members as well.

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조사관들이 "60세 가까운 할머니"라고만 밝힌 그녀의 집주인의 증언에 따르면, 왕 씨는 곤충 수집가들이 의무적으로 착용해야 했던 마스크와 장갑을 주로 착용했다고 합니다. 그들은 어떤 곤충도 직접 만지지 않기로 되어 있었지만, 그들을 움직이거나 줍기 위해 "끝이 끈적끈적한 나뭇가지"를 사용했어요.

하지만, 그 늙은 집주인은 왕씨가 "어리고 충동적"이라고 생각했습니다. 그녀는 왕씨가 항상 적절한 안전 조치를 취했는지 확신하지 못했습니다.

모두 11명의 증인이 왕 씨의 죽음과 관련하여 ISC의 전체 위원회에 의해 인터뷰되었습니다. ISC 조직원 개개인이 인터뷰한 다른 목격자도 있을 수 있습니다.

●   Using Beetles to Deliver Anthrax Exposure
The attacks on the Liu-ehr-pu area in Liaotung first took place on March 20. Lu Li-tsun, a 42 year old farmer in the area, heard planes overhead around 6pm in the early evening and went outside to try and see them. The sun had set. There was no wind.
Lu couldn’t see the planes. His sister-in-law, who followed him outside, told investigators she didn’t hear or see anything. If these witnesses to the attack had been coached in fraudulent narrative, as later American critics maintained, why would some say they couldn’t see anything, or in one case, hear anything?(3)
But Jen Wan-k’u, a 38 year old sergeant in the militia on his way out to patrol, did see the airplanes, which were later identified by China’s Air Observer Corps as two U.S. F-86 fighter jets. Jen also saw something else very suspicious. He told investigators he watched as an object approximately “the size and shape of a large thermos flask, red in colour” fall from the planes. “As it fell, it turned flame-red or orange” as it exploded with a “puff” about 9 to 12 meters above the ground, and 3 to 4 meters above the rooftops of buildings some 160 yards from where he stood.

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랴오퉁의 리우에르푸 지역에 대한 공격은 3월 20일에 처음 발생했습니다. 이 지역의 42세 농부 '루 리츤'은 이른 저녁 오후 6시경 머리 위에서 비행기 소리를 듣고 밖으로 나가 그것을 보기 위해 노력했습니다.  .  해가 지고 있었다.  바람이 없었다.

Lu(루)는 비행기를 볼 수 없었습니다.  그를 따라 밖으로 나가던 그의 며느리는 조사관들에게 그녀는 아무것도 듣지도 보지도 못했다고 말했다.  공격에 대한 이러한 목격자들이 사기성 내러티브로 코칭을 받았다면, 나중에 미국 비평가들이 주장했듯이 일부 사람들은 왜 그들이 아무것도 볼 수 없거나 어떤 경우에는 아무 것도 들을 수 없다고 말할까요?(3)

그러나 38세의 민병대 병장인 Jen Wan-k'u(젠완쿠)는 순찰하러 가는 길에 비행기를 보았고, 나중에 중국 Air Observer Corps(항공관측대)에 의해 두 대의 미국 F-86 전투기로 식별되었습니다.  

Jen(젠)은 또한 매우 의심스러운 다른 것을 보았습니다.  그는 조사관들에게 대략 "빨간색의 큰 보온병 크기와 모양"의 물체가 비행기에서 떨어지는 것을 보았다고 말했습니다.  "떨어지자 붉은색이나 주황색으로 변했다"는 폭발은 그가 서 있던 곳에서 약 160야드 떨어진 건물 옥상 3~4m 높이와 지상 9~12m에서 '퍼프'와 함께 폭발했다.

There was only a “very slight” sound of explosion. Jen smelled “a disagreeable burning smell as if of burning animal skin, or horn (or feathers).” At least two other independent witnesses also saw the canister fall and explode.

When Jen and some other witnesses reached the area under the explosion, they saw a “mass of insects… underneath where the container had seemed to fall.”

One of the other witnesses, was a 15 year old schoolboy, Wang Hua-ming, who was lying on his k’ang bed. He saw the explosion, but when he first went to investigate outside saw nothing. But, as he told investigators, “after he lit the lamp in the house, he noticed insects thickly gathered on the exterior of the window-panes. They were as big as a large rice-grain, and had a ‘hard shell’ and two long feelers. Remembering what his schoolmaster had said about bacterial warfare, he assembled the family and neighbours, who collected as many as possible of the insects, using masks or handkerchiefs tied over the mouth.”

The insects gathered in the Liu-ehr-pu attack were all beetles, later identified as the species Ptinus fur, which were known to infest stored grains and other dried foods, but also appear in libraries, where they eat paper materials. Rarely were they known to appear in such numbers outside of their normal habitat of infestation.

When the beetles that weren’t immediately destroyed were turned over to Chinese bacteriologists, they found them to be contaminated with anthrax, particularly on the insect’s bristles.

Back at the Pathological Laboratories of the National Medical College in Shenyang (Mukden), entomology professor Lu Pao-ling remarked that “the elytra of this beetle were exceptionally abundantly covered with chitinous bristles, which on breaking off could readily enter human respiratory passages, where they would act as inoculation needles.”(4)

Other Cases of Reported U.S. Anthrax Attacks

A few weeks before the attack on Liu-ehr-pu, at least two men had died of respiratory anthrax in Shenyang and in Ssuping (modern day, Siping, in Jilin province, west of the border with North Korea). One of these was a middle-aged railway foreman, who had helped collect flies in an area near the Man Ching Station. The other man was a 47 year old tricycle-rickshaw driver in Shenyang.

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