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Question: Thus, when the Chinese war prisoners were given these paratyphoid rolls, the
scene was photographed as if it were a charitable act? Answer: Yes.

Question: What was done with the Chinese war prisoners after they had eaten these germ-
contaminated rolls?

Answer: They were released from the camp in order to cause an epidemic of typhoid and
paratyphoid.

Question: Tell us about the cakes that were made by Ishii 's order.

Answer: There were two kinds of cakes—egg.shaped and oval. They were made from flour
and contaminated with bacteria, like the rolls. Then these cakes were distributed among the
Japanese soldiers who were warned of the kind of cakes they were, and the Japanese soldiers
left them—300 to 400 in all—near fences, at the foot of trees and at bivouac places as if they
had forgotten them there.

Question: Was this also a method of bacteriological sabotage?

Answer: Yes. ?

Question: What do you know about the results of the Ishii Detachment's expedition?

Answer: When the operation was finished I learned at the base, in Detachment 731, from
scientific researcher Kagi that typhoid and paratyphoid germs had been used and that
paratyphoid had proved to be the most effective.

Question: It follows, then, that as a result of the expedition epidemics broke out and
centres of epidemics were formed?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Did you take part in experiments on living people?

Answer: Yes, this was at the end of 1943. To test the effectiveness of vaccines 50 Chinese
and Manchurians were used as experimental material. First these 50 men were given
preventive inoculations, but these were differentiated inoculations—some prisoners were
given one, others were given two. Furthermore, different men were inoculated with different
quantities of vaccine, and some of these 50 men were not inoculated at all.

Thus, these 50 men were divided into five different groups. All these men were forced to
drink water contaminated with typhoid germs and then observation was kept to see what
effect these pathogenic germs had in the different cases, depending on whether preventive
inoculations had been performed on the man or not, how many times, and in what quantities.

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