Telegram from Wang Ping Man to Secretary-General

DECLASSIFIED Authority E.O. 10501 RESTRICTED NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS US/A/3462 SERVICE" Apr11 1,1952' UNITED STATES MISSION TO THE UNITED NATIONS TELEGRAM DATED MARCH 26, 1952 ALLEGING BACTERIOLOGICAL WARFARE, RECEIVED BY UN SECRETARIAT FROM CHICOM MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS THE SECRETARIAT, THE UNITED NATIONS NEW YORK I am instructed to transmit to you the statement on February 24, 1952 of Chau En Lai, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China, supporting the protest by Bah Hun Yung, Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs, against the United States Governments prosecution of bacteriological warfare and also the statement of Minister Chau En Lai on March 8, 1952 solemnly protesting against the employment of bacteriological weapons by the United States Government for the purpose of killing Chinese people and against its air intrusions over Chinese territory: "Statement by Chau En-Lai, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China on supporting the protest by Bak Hun Yung, Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs, against the American Governments prosecution of Bacteriological warfare and calling on the people of the world to take action to stop these crimes against humanity, February 24, 1952. According to authenticated data available at the Field Headquarters of the Korean's People's Army and the Chinese People's volunteers, the American aggressor troops, since January 28, 1952 have repeatedly employed on a still larger scale than before, bacteriological weapons which are aimed at slaughtering the peaceful people of Korea, the Korean Peoples Army and the Chinese Peoples volunteers. Dak Hun Yung, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, issued on February 22, of this year a statement protesting against these crimes and calling on the people of the whole world to check the atrocities of the American imperialists and hold internationally responsible those who organize the employment of bacteriological weapons. "I am authorized to state formally that the Central peoples Government of the Chinese Peoples Republic and the Chinese People fully support this just position of the Government of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. "Everybody knows, this is not the first time that American imperial- ism has used bacteriological weapons in its war of intervention in Korea. As early as during the period from December 1950 to January 1951, the American aggressor troops disseminated smallpox viruses in Pyongyang, Kancwon Province, South (Yahmyong) Province, (Hwanchae) Province and some other areas when they retreated southward across the 38th parallel under the combined blows of the Korean People's Army and the Chinese People's volunteers. The recent criminal act of the American aggressor troops in repeatedly spreading by aircraft large quantities of germ-laden insects over the frontline positions and in the rear of the Korean Peoples Army and the Chinese Peoples volunteers has provided further proof that the American Government is continuing planned and premeditated germ warfare in a completely inhuman manner. The people of the whole world, squarely faced with the facts, cannot but identify the American Government today as the first war criminal in the world, in pursuit of aggressive war and in viola- tion of all international conventions, to use bacteriological weapons.