WAR CRIMES TRIALS, TOKYO, JAPAN Part 1

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Signal Corps ADC 6834 SOURCE: AFCF (A-2129) FILM : Arch & APC MR 855' ea, Composite (Std) 834 WAR CRIMES TRIALS Tokyo, Japan - 24 Nov 1947 Mr Tavenner cross-examining witness, Kawabe. (latter not in scene). Defendant Matsui leaving the dock and taking the stand. MS, Mr F J Mattice at lectern as voice of Matsui is heard asking that corrections be made in certain parts of his affidavit. Mattice reading Matsui's affidavit in which he says that the expedition to China was to make China come to her senses not out of hatred, but out of love. For this reason he consented to take command of the 10th Japanese Army and the Shanghai Expeditionary Force. The Chinese were to be treated decently and foreign interests protected, Matsui instructed. Brig Gen Henry G Nolan, British prosecutor, cross-examining Matsui. The officer asks if it is not true, as he states in his affidavit, that certain excited young officers and men committed unpleasant outrages in Nanking. Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave, LIC 1, NY EBS/amf

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Moving Images Relating to Military Activities