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superior officers?

Answer: Major Nishi told us that we must guard against spies.

Question: Where were you sent when you had finished the course of training?

Answer: To Detachment 731.

Question: What did you do in Detachment 731 after you had finished the training course?

Answer: I was a guard during manoeuvres.

Question: Tell us about these manoeuvres.

Answer: These manoeuvres consisted of dropping bombs containing fleas from aircraft.
That was all the manoeuvres consisted of.

Question: Where were these manoeuvres conducted?

Answer: I cannot say what the exact distance was, but about three kilometres from the
headquarters of Detachment 731, in the village of Wutung.

Question: During these manoeuvres was the dispersion of fleas over the area of the
manoeuvres verified?

Answer: Yes, it was.

Question: Tell us, what special technical methods were employed for this?

Answer: Boxes were placed in the area of the manoeuvres about two metres from each
other, I do not remember the exact number of boxes, but approximately about 1,000.

Question: Over approximately what area?

Answer: I cannot say exactly, but I believe it was about two square kilometres. In these
boxes there was sticky paper and the fleas dispersed by the explosion of the bomb were
caught on the paper in these boxes and afterwards they were counted.

Question: Did you yourself count the fleas at the bottom of these boxes?

Answer: Yes, I did.

Question: Do you know for what purpose these tests were made?

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