A STRIKING ACT
PRESERVING ORDER IN
NANKING
LONDON, December 39,
Reuters correspondent at Nanking, who has arrived at Shanghai, has sent a cablegram stating that one' of the most striking humanitarian acts in the recent warfare was carried out by .an international committee of volunteers, which, after the withdrawal of the Administration, was the only stable force in Nanking. They preserved order in the refugee zone throughout the bombing and shelling preceding the capture and did not permit an armed man to penetrate the zone, into which thousands of terror-stricken civilians flocked.
The volunteers, by negotiation with the Japanese, also prevented the possibility of further horror and bloodshed, as the Japanese avoided bombing and shelling the zone.
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Evening Post, Volume cxxiv, Issue 148, 20 December 1937, Page 11
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