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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 mostly jobs, then 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, 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,
then 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
food per day, the work site provided them arduous service, inhuman
treatment and death every moment.¡±
The Longwangmiao military engineering called 693 army
hospital should be a secret place to produce bacteria and
experiment, according to the investigation on the remain and what
the once laborers said. The project personnel destroyed the
massive constructions data after Japanese surrender. The
eyewitness Zhang weitang recollected that the project blueprints
were destroyed dozens of days after 8.15,
burning 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, 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
can. Then I left soon. ¡±Zhang xiaoqi, another survived
laborer, said he had heard the old foreman Banxia working over the
blueprint with the young Korean foreman , they mumbled that the
blueprint was form Osaka, the building was to be germ factory.
The real use of the engineering has to be proven by other
data. In fact, the
engineering killed 8000 Chinese laborers in its three years
construction. |