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were raped in his house while he was having dinner with us, Wilson reported a boy of 5 years of age brought to the hos- pital after having been stabbed with a bayonet, a woman with 17 cuts on her face and several on her legs. Between 400 and 500 terrorized women poured into our headquarters compound in the afternoon and spent the night in the open.

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Sunday the 19th. A day of complete anarchy. ral big fires raging today, started by the soldiers and more are promised. The American flag was torn down in a number of places, At the American school it was trampled on and the caretaker told me he would be killed if he put it up again? The proclamation placed on all American and other foreign properties by the Japanese Embassy are flouted by their sol- diers, sometimes deliberately torn off. Some houses are en- tered into five to ten times in one day and the poor people looted and robbed and the women raped. Several were killed in cold blood, for no apparent reason whatever. Six out of seven of our sanitation squad in one district were slaughtered. The seventh escaped, wounded to tell the tale. Towards even- ing today two of us rushed to Dr. Brady's house (he is away) and chased four would-be rapers out and took all women there to the University. Sperling is busy at this game all day. also went to the house of Douglas Jenkins of our Embassy. The flag is still there but in the garage his house-boy lay dead, another servant dead was under the bed, both brutally killed. The house was in utter confusion. There are still \ many corpses on the streets all of them civilians as far as we can see. The Red Ewastika Society would bury them but their truck has been stolen, their coffins used for bonfires and several of their workers, bearing their insignia have been marched away.

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Smythe and I called again at the Japanese Embassy with a list of 55 additional cases of violence, all authen- ticated, and told Messrs. Tanaka and Fukul that today was the worst so far. We were assured that they would "do their best" and hoped that things would be better "soon" but it was quite obvious that they have little or no influence with the mili- tary whatever and the military have no control over the sol- diers, We were told that 17 military police had recently ar- rived who would help in restoring order. 17 for an army of criminals of the most depraved type of perhaps fifty thousand. Yet we rather like the three men at the Embassy. They are probably doing their best. But I had to smile when they asked ay help in getting cars and a mechanic for them after so many of our cars had been stolen. I felt like referring them to their own military but instead I took them round to the AM- erican Embassy and borrowed our Ambassador's and two others for them and later sent them our Russian repair man.

Monday December 20th.

Vandalism and violence con-

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