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of disarmed soldiers who had sought sanctuary with you to- gether with many hundreds of innocent civilians are taken out before your eyes to be shot or used For bayonet prac- tice and you have to listen to the sound of the guns that are killing them; while a thousand women kneel before you crying hysterically begging you to save them from the beasts who are preying on them; to stand by and do nothing while your flag is taken down and insulted, not once but a dozen times and your own home is being looted and then to watch the city you have come to love and the institution to which you had planned to devote your best years, deliberately and systematically burned by fire, this is a hell I had ne- ver before envisaged, but hell it is none the less.
We keep asking ourselves how long can this last? Day by day we are assured by the officials that things will be better soon, that "we will do our best", but each day has been worse than the day before; and now we are told that a new division of 20,000 men are arriving. Will they have to have their toll of flesh and loot, of murder and rape? There will be little left to rob, for the city has been well nigh stripped clean. For the past week the soldiers have been busy loading their trucks with what they wanted from the stores and the setting fire to the buildings. And then there is the harrowing realization that we have only enough rice and flour for the 20,000 refugess for another three weeks and coal for ten days. So you wonder that one awakes in the night in a cold sweat of fear and sleep for the rest of the : night is gone. Even if we had food enough for three months
how are they going to be fed after that? And with their houses burned where are they going to live? They cannot continue much longer in their present terrible crowded con- dition; disease and pestilence must soon follow if they do.
Every day we call at the kabussy and present our protests, our appeals, our lists of authenticated reports of violence and crime. We are met with suave Japanese courtesy, but actually the officials there are powerless. The victor- ious army must have its rewards -- these rewards are to plun- der, murder and rape at will, to commit acts of unbelievable brutality and savagery on the very people whom they come to protect and befriend, as they have so loudly proclaimed to the world. In all modern history there is no page that will stand so black as that of the rape of Nanking.
To tell the whole story of these past ten days or so would take too long. The tragic thing is that by the time the truth gets out to the rest of the world it will be cold it will no longer be "news". Anyway the Japanese have un- doubtedly been proclaiming abroad that they have established
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