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Wu as our guests we had to answer three calls for help and turn soldiers out of Fenn's and the Chinese Faculty houses and the Sericulture building. The American flag was taken
from the Rural Training School, seven soldiers spent that night and the night before in the Bible Training School and raped the women, a girl of 12 was raped by three soldiers almost next door to us and another of 13 before we could send relief. There were also more bayonet cases, Wilson reports that of the 240 cases in the hospital three quarters are due to Japanese violence since the occupation. At the University registration commenced. The people were told that if an ex-soldier were there and would step out they would be used in the labour corps and their lives would be saved. About 200stepped out. They were herded together and taken away. Two or three lived to tell the tale and feigning death after they were wounded escaped and came to the hospital. One group was machine gunned, another was surrounded by sol- diers and used for bayonet practice. We had quite a number of cases where men have faced the execution squad, escaped with only a wound or two perhaps lying all day and into the night covered with corpses of their comrades to escape detec- tion and then getting to the hospital or friends. A rash bit of carelessness on the part of the Japanese,
December 27th. The third week of the Japanese oc- cupation begins and is celebrated by the arrival of a Nissin Kaisha ship from Shanghai. Four representatives of the com- pany called at my office and promised that a regular service would soon be established on the river. A number of ladies are in the party and are taken on & sight seeing trip through the city. They distribute a few sweets to some children and seem tremendously pleased with themselves, also with Japan's wonderful victory, but of course they hear nothing of the real truth, nor does the rest of the world, I suppose. The soldiers are still out of control and there is no co-operation between the army and the Embassy. The army even refused to recognise the new Self-Government Committee which was called into being by the Embassy and its members are deliberately slighted. They are told they are a conquered people and should expect no fa- vours. Our list of instances of disorder and cruelty keeps mounting and those we never hear of must be many, many times what are reported and observed. A few of today's:- A boy of 13 taken by the Japanese nearly 2 weeks ago, beaten with an iron rod and then bayonetted because he did not do his work satisfactorily. A car with an officer and two soldiers came to the University last night, raped three women on the premises and took one away with them. The Bible Teachers Training Insti- tute was entered many times, people were robbed and 20 women raped. The hospital's night superintendent taken by soldiers in spite of Miss Bauer's protests. The burning of the city
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