"FOUR DAYS OF HELL"
NANKING SIEGE
SYSTEMATIC KILLING BY JAPANESE
LONDON, December 16. " 'Four days of hell' would be the most fitting way to describe the siege and capture of Nanking which I have just seen," says A. T. Steele, the special correspondent of the "Daily Mail," now on board the United States gunboat Oahu.
"The last thing we saw as we left the city was a band of 300 Chinese being executed near the waterfront, where corpses were already piled knee-deep. After the collapse of the Chinese morale the Japanese could have occupied the city without firing a shot, but they chose instead systematic killing," Steele says.
The Tokio correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports that great flag parades celebrated the fall of Nanking. In them 150,000 children, including the two elder daughters of the Emperor, Princesses Shigeko, aged 12, and Kazuko, aged 8, participated. The parades continued throughout the night and day.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 146, 17 December 1937, Page 9
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