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Answer: Chains were not put on.


                  State Prosecutor: In view of this answer by witness Tachibana, I request that the Court read
               the second part of the already read Operations Order of the Kwantung Gendarmerie No. 224,
               of August 8, 1939. That document is directly related to the question I have put to the witness,
               and therefore I request that this document be read.


                  President  of  the  Court:  The  Military  Tribunal  rules  that  this  document  be  read.  The
               document will simultaneously be read in Japanese.


                  (The accused put on their earphones. The President


               reads the Russian translation of the afore-mentioned


               document. Simultaneously, the document is read in


                  Japanese and shown to witness Tachibana.*)


                  State Prosecutor: Well, witness Tachibana, perhaps, having seen the authentic document,
               you will now confirm that when "special consignments" were sent, manacles and chains and
               cord were used?


                  Witness Tachibana: This document is totally unknown to me. It is possible that manacles
               were used in this case for special reasons. While I was there, no manacles were used.




                   *See pp. 185.86.





                  Question:  You  want  to  say  that  you  sent  people  to  certain  death  under  torment,  and,
               whereas other gendarmerie administrations used manacles, the administration of which you
               were in charge never used these manacles. Is that what you want to say?


                    (Sounds of indignation in courtroom.)
                        (Witness Tachibana is silent.)


                  State Prosecutor: What will you say in answer to this?


                  Witness  Tachibana:  When  I  was  Chief  of  the  Kiamusze  Gendarmerie  Administration
               manacles were used, but chains were not put on the legs.


                                               (Commotion in courtroom.)




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