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Hsinching, Army Command, December 2, 12.00

1. The units enumerated in separate inclosure are newly formed and are to be under my
command.

(Points 2 to 16 inclusive, omitted from translation.—Trans.)
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17. The Chief of the Water Supply and Antiepidemic Administration of the Kwantung
Army to locate the following units at the places enumerated below:

Mutankiang branch—in Hailin
Linkow branch—in Linkow

*Seal of the person who despatched the document.—Trans.

Sunyu branch—in Sunyu
Hailar branch—in Hailar.

Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung Army, General Umezu

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Translator's remarks:

1. In front of the words "The Chief of the Water Supply and Antiepidemic Administration
of the Kwantung Army" there are the marginal inscriptions in pencil: "Harbin, the I shit
Detachment (Kama Detachment)."

2. The four branches enumerated are in brackets, in front of which there is the inscription
in red pencil: "Newly formed."

3. A note is pasted to the document bearing the following inscription in ink: "It has been
deemed necessary that the Ishii Detachment located in Harbin (Water Supply and
Antiepidemic Administration of the Kwantung Army, otherwise known as Kama
Detachment), being a special unit, should be strengthened and have local branches. For the
time being branches have been set up in four places (assigned —3 gendarmes)."

Translated by Senior Interpreter, Master of Historical Sciences

Signed: (PODPALOVA)

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