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Answer: From 800 to 900 kilograms a month.

Question: And of anthrax?

Answer: About 600 kilograms.

Question: Cholera?

Answer: About one ton.

Question: Paratyphoid?

Answer: As much as typhoid.

Question: Dysentery?

Answer: The same quantity.

Question: Did I understand you rightly? Using all the boilers at the 4th Di/ision's disposal,
eight tons of culture medium could be produced?

Answer: That is correct. Four tons in the first unit, and the second unit could also produce
four tons.

Question: Where were Detachment 731's branches located?

Answer: The detachment's branches were located at Hailar, Sunyu, and at Linkow and
Hailin stations near the town of Mutankiang.

Question: These branches were located in the immediate vicinity of the frontier of the
Soviet Union?

Answer: Yes, that is so.

Question: Were you ever yourself at these branches?

Answer: I visited each branch once.

Question: For what purpose did you /isit these branches?

Answer: I visited the branches to ascertain whether they had accommodation for
production equipment.

Question: That is, for the large-scale cultivation of bacteria in each branch?

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