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Accused Takahashi: I served in the Kwantung Army as Chief of the Veterinary
Administration of Kwantung Army Headquarters from March 1941 up to August 1945, when
I was taken prisoner by Soviet troops.

Question: Is your military rank Lieutenant General of the Veterinary Service?

Answer: Yes.

Question: When was Detachment 100 of the Kwantung Army formed?

Answer: The Kwantung Army Administration of the Antiepizootic Protection of Horses
was organized at the end of 1935 or beginning of 1936.

Question: At any rate, when you reported for service in the Kwantung Army this
administration was already functioning?

Answer: Yes, that is correct.

Question: Tell the Court what functions were assigned Detachment 100 in 1941.

Answer: In March 1941, when I was in charge, the administration's activities centred on
manufacturing vaccine and serum, mainly for the horse herd, and on research in infectious
diseases.

In September 1941 the detachment was given the assignment to prepare for bacteriological
warfare and bacteriological sabotage, to study these questions and devise the means.

Question: Against what country chiefly was bacteriological warfare intended?

Answer: Chiefly against the Soviet Union.

Question: What bacteria was it decided to cultivate in Detachment 100 as a weapon of
bacteriological warfare?

Answer: In the main glanders and anthrax germs, later red-rust and mosaic-disease germs
and afterwards cattleand sheep-plague germs.

Question: What pathogenic germs did you consider most suitable for purposes of
bacteriological warfare?

Answer: The anthrax, cattle- and sheep-plague germs.

Question: Who was the Chief of Detachment 100?

Answer: Wakamatsu, Major General of the Veterinary Service.

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