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Question: Were the soldiers sent to catch rats in military uniform?

Answer: They were all dressed in civilian clothes to hide the fact that they were in military
service.

Question: Were all the rats that were caught kept in Branch 643, or were some of them sent
to another place?

Answer: Some of the rodents were used in the 3rd Section of Branch 643, but most of them
were sent to Detachment 731.

Question: Did you yourself see these rats being sent to Detachment 731, or are you saying
this from what somebody told you?

Answer: I myself saw it. I saw special trucks leaving the premises of Branch 643 for the
Hailar railway station for this purpose.

Question: When and by whose orders was the Mutankiang Branch of Detachment 731
destroyed?

Answer: The branch was destroyed on August 13, 1945, in the morning, by order of the
Chief of the branch, Major Onoue.

EXAMINATION OF WITNESS KUWABARA

President of the Court: You have signed a warning that you are liable to prosecution if you
give false evidence. You must tell the Court the truth.

Witness Kuwabara: I understand.

Question: Did you serve in the Japanese Army?

Answer: I did.

Question: In what capacity?

Answer: In the capacity of a civilian employee in the detachment for the antiepizootic
protection of horses.

Question: How long did you serve in this detachment?

Answer: I worked from January 19, 1944 to the end of the war.

Question: In what capacity did you work?

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