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preparations for the 1942 expedition?

Answer: The 4th Division was instructed to supply the germs for the Detachment 731
expedition; 130 kilograms of these germs were prepared and despatched by air to Central
China.

Question: Will you tell us what germs specifically were prepared by the 4th Division?

Answer: We prepared only the germs of paratyphoid and anthrax.

Question: Did you yourself read General Umezu's order regarding the despatch of the
expedition to China in 1942?

Answer: I did.

Question: What do you know of the expedition to China in 1940?

Answer: General Ishii showed me a Chinese medical journal in which the causes of an
outbreak of plague in the Nimpo area in 1940 were discussed. After showing me the journal
he told me that a Detachment 731 expedition had dropped plague fleas from an aeroplane in
the Nimpo area, and that this was the cause of the outbreak of the epidemic.

Question: What opinion did Ishii give of the results of the 1940 expedition in his talk with
you?

Answer: He considered the expedition a success.

State Prosecutor: With the Court's permission, I should like to have Vol. 20 of the record,
which contains maps.

(On receiving Vol. 20, the State Prosecutor passes to accused Kawashima maps with
markings on them.)

You have been handed maps of China. On these maps you crosshatched the sectors where
bacteriological attacks were launched. Do you confirm that bacteriological attacks on the
Chinese population were launched precisely in these areas?

Accused Kawashima: I do.

Question: And these are the maps on which you made your markings?

Answer: They are.

Question: And do you confirm that these are the areas in which the attacks on China were
launched?

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