"At 2 P.M. on the 18th August 1945, Dr. Yoshimi received a telephone message form the Taihoku Aerodrome to be ready to receive a number of persons injured in an air accident. Sometime later, a dozen injured persons including Netaji Subas Chandra Bose were admitted into the hospital. There is some discrepancy between the witnesses, as to who traveled in which vehicles, and who arrived first. But these are minor points, most of the witnesses have said that he was without any clothes on him, but there are others who say that he came partly covered.

"A Military Officer identified the big-built foreigner as the Indian leader Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose . His Adjutant, Col. Habibur Rehman, was also admitted at the same time.

"When he was brought in, Netaji's condition was the most serious, but such was his magnanimity that he told the doctors to attend to the others first, and to him last. In view, however, of his condition, the doctors attended to him first. Eye-witnesses, both medical and non-medical, have said that Netaji was burnt all over; and his skin had taken on a dark colour, but none of them mentioned any cut injury.

"Col. Habibur Rehman has said that Netaji had a cut on his head 4 inches long which was bleeding. This is a discrepancy.

"Netaji was examined by Dr. Yoshimi who says:

I found that he was severely burnt all over his body, and all of it had taken on a grayish colour like ash. Even his heart had burns. His face was swollen. In my opinion, his burns were of the severest type, i.e., of the third degree. There was no injury on his body from which blood came out. His eyes were also swollen. He could see, but had difficulty in opening them. He was in his sense when he was brought in. He was in high fever; his temperature was 39 centigrade. His pulse rate was 120 per minute. The condition of his heart was also weak.

"Dr. Yoshimi has stated that after examination of Netaji, his impression was that his condition was so serious that he was not likely to survive till the next morning. He says that Netaji's burns were caused by splashing of petrol."