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e pictures depict the full Operational Order no. 224 of the Kwantung

gendarmerie on the massive “special deliver y”. e memo reads,

Head of the Kwantung gendarmer ie,

General-Major Shirakura

Order

OPERATIONAL ORDER no. 1 OF THE

GENDARMERIE UNIT HIRANO

Order according to the Hirano Unit

Training division of the Kwantung gendarmer ie
th
August 8 . 17 O’clock

1. e second “special transportation,” held on the basis of the

operating order of the Kwantung gendarmer ie no. 222, is produced

in agreement to paragraph 1 of the operational order of the
Kwantung gendarmerie no. 224, Page 47

2. Unit Hirano will protect the “special transportation” with part of

their forces.

3. Field officer Imamura is leading 24 gendarmes (named in the

appendix) and one noncommissioned officer medic will

immediately leave from Xinjin and on arrival in Shanhaiguan will
receive orders from the Ji-zhou gendarmer ie unit. Before dep arture,

will be received from the headquarters of the Kwantung

gendarmerie means to accompany the arrested (81 leg shackles, 52

hand shackles, 40 ropes for binding during detention, 25 ropes for