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Question: How did you pack these bottles in the boxes?

Answer: We covered the mouths of these bottles with paraffin wax and then with
cellophane, the cellophane was tied with special strings. Then we packed them all in zinc
boxes.

Question: How many bottles containing bacteria went into a box?

Answer: 15 or 16.

Question: Where did you take these boxes containing bacteria substance?

Answer: We took these boxes on a motor truck to the aerodrome that was about a
kilometre away from the detachment's main building.

Question: How many journeys did you make to the aerodrome?

Answer: I do not remember exactly, I think we drove there three times.

Question: What was the load capacity of the trucks on which you took the boxes to the
aerodrome?

Answer: I do not remember exactly.

Question: Perhaps you remember something else—approximately, how many boxes were
taken to the aerodrome?

Answer: I do not remember this exactly, either.

Question: At all events, you made three journeys to the aerodrome, is that right?

Answer: Yes, that's right. I remember that we drove to the aerodrome three times.

EXAMINATION OF WITNESS OZEKl

President of the Court: Witness Ozeki, you have signed the Court's warning that you are
liable to prosecution if you give false evidence. You must tell the Court nothing but the truth.

Witness Ozeki: I understand.

Question: How long did you serve in Detachment 731?

Answer: I served in Detachment 731 from May 1939 to April 1942.

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