ONLY AN ASH HEAP.
DEFENDERS’ DECISION
DESTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS.
Received December 8, 10.45 a.m. NANKING, Dec. 7
Determined to make Nanking untenable for the Japanese, the defenders, before their withdrawal, are systematically blowing up and burning buildings, ammunition dumps, and hangars, the intention being to give the conquerors nothing but ail ash heap to occupy. Every Chinese’ plane has departed and those under repair have been destroyed. The authorities are shooting looters. At Tikio the German Ambassador (Herr yon Direksen), following the talks by the German Minister to China (Dr Trautmann) with Marshal Chians Kai-shek, has conferred with •Mr K. Hirota, possibly regarding China’s peaceful surrender of Nanking. A Shanghai message states that certain Central Government circles are believed to have declared that negotiations are possible if the Japanese terms are reasonable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 9, 8 December 1937, Page 9
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