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Answer: Yes, I do.

Question: Tell us about it.

Answer: Although these fleas were not infected with germs, I knew that this was being
done for the purpose of preparing to conduct bacteriological warfare, in which event, these
fleas, infected with plague, would be dropped from aircraft.

Question: At approximately what distance from the ground did the bacteria bombs
containing fleas explode?

Answer: At a height of about 100 metres.

Question: While working in Branch 162, did you take part in cultivating bacteria?

Answer: Yes, I took part in cultivating bacteria.

Question: Tell us, did you with a group of members of your branch go out to catch
rodents?

Answer: Yes, I did.

Question: Once, or more times?

Answer: Twice.

Question: How many days on each occasion did you spend in catching rodents?

Answer: A week.

Question: How many rodents did you yourself catch?

Answer: In all I caught 200-300.

Question: Were these rodents kept in Branch 162, or were they sent somewhere?

Answer: The rodents we caught were sent to Detachment 731.

Question: Do you know in what consignments they were sent from your branch?

Answer: I do not know exactly, but they were sent to Detachment 731 in large
consignments.

Question: Tell us, accused Kurushima, when you were catching rodents, cultivating

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