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The army hospital of Japanese
Guandong army is the name of Longwangmiao Fort. The fort
had been constructed since May 1942, which was expected to be
finished in five years and was stopped for the surrender.
In the name of military, the 693 army usurped the civil
place in the Longwangmiao area. They ordered the administration
of Jinzhou to buy 5000 Chinese acres land at low price. The area
is 61% of the total cultivated area. People there had to work in
the N0.693 army work site to maintain the livelihood. Some
were even destitute and homeless.
The main part of the engineering of 693 army hospital is
a multilayer whole construction which locates between
Huangjiaying(now in Dalian army institute courtyard) and
Mushan(north of the Zhangjiatun of Longwangmiao), which has
basement and is 500 meters long. For its length, it therefore
had the name ¡°the Asian First Corridor ¡± at that time.
Besides the principal part, there are cave, water tank, boiler
room, road from Jinzhou to Huangjiaying, special-purpose
railroad in Gaojiadianzi, traffic lane from Gaojiadianzi via
Diaoyutai to principal part site, man power lane from Beidahe
north bank to the principal part site and sand work sites and
special purpose-brick kiln so on. The scope is quite large.
The construction office of Manchu 3693 army was in charge
of this project. In the office, the construction department was
responsible for technology, materials, general affairs, the
guard brigade for security and the escaped laborer. The main
part is construction department which has Manchuria central
heating company, Manchuria electricity, construction development
and other construction teams. Suzuki, the minister of the
construction corporation, contracted most of jobs.
He subcontracted them to the other 11 corporation such as
¡°Zhendong¡±.
The majority of laborers were from outside areas,
especially from Shandong province.
They were
deceived by the words that the work was easy, the food was rice
and flour, one year wages was hundreds of yuan and the money can
be posted to home at autumn . The foreman Zhao dongyan honestly
said: from February to May in 1942, he recruited about 260
laborers. Then the laborers
were taken photo and
registered by the Japanese. They
were shipped to Dalian.
The big foreman Jiang yinchen, working for the Zhegdong
corporation, being
executed after the liberation, said that: ¡°I deceived four
hundred or five hundred people from Shandong province etc. to
build the airport, warehouse, streets. The laborers with good
dream became prisoners once they were sent to the ship with one
meal per day, the work site provided them arduous service,
inhuman treatment and death every moment.¡±
The Longwangmiao military engineering was called 693 Army
Hospital, which was a secret place to produce bacteria and do
experiment, according to the investigation on the remains and
what the laborers said. The project personnel destroyed the
massive constructions data after Japanese surrendered. The
eyewitness Zhang Weitang recollected that the project blueprints
were destroyed dozens of days after 8.15,
the burning lasted for three days. Ji deyi, a translator
then in the construction office of Guandong 693 Army,
recollected that: ¡°when I
was drinking with guard Gaoqiao, he said that the
hospital would be germ demonstration plant. When I asked what
should it be used for, he said it was military. then he emphasis
that I should keep
secret, and that if I gave out , I
would be killed. He also said the building then being
constructed under ground that should not be seen on the ground,
the coolie here would be killed. I should go away as soon as I
could. Then I left. ¡±Zhang xiaoqi, another surviving
laborer, said he had heard the old foreman Banxia working over
the blueprint with the young Korean foreman , they mumbled that
the blueprint was from Osaka. The
building was to be germ factory.
The real use of the project has to be proven by other
data. In fact, the
engineering killed 8000 Chinese laborers in its three years¡¯
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