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to Korea?

Answer: At that time South Korea was the safest place, and all the more because the troops
stationed in Korea were subordinated to the Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung Army,
and we did not calculate that Korea would be captured by the adversary.

Question: Which units of the Kwantung Army were detailed to destroy Detachment 731?

Answer: At the time the order to destroy Detachment 731 was issued, the mixed brigade
under Major General Ube was located in the vicinity of Harbin, and in all likelihood sappers
of this brigade carried out the blasting of the detachment, but I am not able to affirm this, for
the order did not directly stipulate which unit was to take part in destroying the detachment.

The testimony has been read to me in Japanese and I confirm its correctness.

Matsumura

INTERROGATOR

Member of the staff

of the Office of the Ministry

for Internal Affairs

for the Khabarovsk Territory,

Senior Lieutenant KORSA KOV Interpreter PL YACHENKO

RECORD OF INTERROGATION
OF WITNESS MATSUMURA TOMOKATSU

December 7, 1949 City of Khabarovsk

Witness Matsumura Tomokatsu was

warned of the penalty for giving false testimony under Art. 95 of the Criminal Code of the
R.S.F.S.R.

Signed: Matsumura

The interrogation is conducted through interpreter T s v i r o v, who was warned of his

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