JAPANESE REVENGE
HORRORS IN CHINA
CHICAGO. April 30. Father Vincent Smith, a missionary who escaped to the hills near Kiangsi while the Japanese marauded the area after the bombing of Tokio in April last year, said that the death* roll in their massacre might reach 500.000. The civilised mind, he said, could not conceive of the tortures which had been inflicted on men, women, children, and even babies. Whole towns of 15,000 and 20,000 people were wiped out. Homes and business places were | burnt to the ground. A handful of people who fled to the hills were the only survivors. The United States Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Henry Morgenthau, ■ stated, according to a report from San I Francisco on Thursday, that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had sent a cablegram revealing that Japanese troops slaughtered every man, woman, Sand child in the coastal areas of China where the American flyers landed after the bombing of Tokio. The Japanese reproduced on a wholesale scale the horrors of Lidice.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 102, 1 May 1943, Page 5
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