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were being kept in the detachment's prison for the purpose of being experimented on?

Answer: He did.

Question: Was the Gendarmerie under the subordination of the Commander-in-Chief of the
Kwantung Army?

Answer: Yes, the Gendarmerie was directly under my subordination.

Question: Were the Japanese Military Missions in Manchuria under the subordination of
the Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung Army?

Answer: Yes, they were.

Question: Do you know that Detachment 731 received the people for the experiments from
the Gendarmerie and the Japanese Military Missions?

Answer: At the preliminary investigation, when various documents were shown to me, I
learned that large numbers of persons had been supplied to Detachment 731 by the
Gendarmerie and the Military Missions. It had been my belief that it was prisoners sentenced
to the death penalty that Vere sent to Detachment 731, and I inferred that they were persons
sentenced to death by the courts of Manchukuo.

Question: What you mean to say is that before these documents were shown to you, you
believed that the persons sent to Detachment 731 for annihilation had been sentenced to the
death penalty by the courts, is that so?

Answer: Yes, I wanted to say that that is how I understood it.

State Prosecutor: I request the Court to have presented to accused Yamada the photostat of
the document dated March 12, 1943, contained in Vol. 21, pp. 90-92.*

(The document is presented to accused Yamada.)

Accused Yamada, you have before you a photostat of an instruction of the Kwantung
Gendarmerie dated March 12, 1943. Examine this document carefully. Accused Yamada,
does not the document you have before you testify that persons were sent for annihilation to
Detachment 731 without investigation or trial?

Accused Yamada: It does.

State Prosecutor: I request the Court to have read out the copy of Order 224 of the
Kwantung Gendarmerie concerning the sending of 90 persons for annihilation under the
name of a "special consignment." This document is to be found in Vol. 17, pp. 35-38.**

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