FOREWORD

Perhaps this book would not have come to be written had it not been for the fact that telegrams reporting the outrages committed against Chinese civi1ians by the Japanese troops which occupied Nanking in December of last year were suppressed by the censors installed by the Japanese authorities in the foreign cable offices at Shanghai. Among the messages that were thus suppressed or mutilated were several telegrams which the writer attempted to send to the Manchester Guardian.

Although I was fully satisfied that the information upon which my messages were based was irrefutable，as the Japanese authorities had alleged some of them to be “grossly exaggerated,” I began to search for documentary proof and had no difficulty in discovering a wealth of corroborative evidence from unimpeachable sources. So shocking was the state of affairs thus revealed that I conceived the notion of publishing this evidence forthwith.

I make this personal explanation in order to show that the idea of producing this book was entirely my own and，while I have received valuable assistance from several friends in the selection and compilation of the material，I take ful1 responsibility for its publication. Access to the International Committee’s correspondence was made possible through my connection with certain relief organizations in Shanghai which had received copies in order that they might understand the situation and cooperate as effectively as possible with the Nanking group. It was only at my earnest request that the custodians of these documents permitted me to make use of the material in this way.

It is by no means the purpose of this book to stir up animosity against the Japanese people. I have many Japanese friends whom I hold in the highest respect and I wish it were politic to mention their names．One in particular is an important official and another of rare fineness of intellect and feeling holds a semiofficial position in Shanghai. It was my privi1ege to be associated with them both in more than one humanitarian enterprise and I wish to express my heartfelt appreciation of their sympathetic cooperation and friendship under very trying circumstances．I should like also to pay a special tribute to a certain Japanese Army officer who，in private，expressed his regret at the massacre of the unfortunate Chinese civilians who were bombed in a refugee train near Sungkiang in the early part of last September. These men，and there must be many others like them，are doubly deserving of admiration and respect since to betray their true thoughts and feelings to their countrymen at a time like this may well bring them death and dishonor．

The aim of this book is to give the world as accurately as possible the facts about the Japanese Army’s treatment of the Chinese civilian population in the l937－8 hostilities so that war may be recognized for the detestable business it really is and thus be stripped of the false glamour with which militarist megalomaniacs seek to invest it．

Revelations of the propaganda methods used by both sides in other wars have not unnaturally caused many people to regard with skepticism any“atrocity”stories．In this volume are gathered statements，reports and documents，the most pertinent of which have been supplied by absolutely reliable neutral observers．The private letters have been left largely as they were written except where references were made to matters primarily of a personal nature and of concern only to the relatives and friends to whom the letters were addressed．As a matter of expediency and for the safety of all concerned，internal evidence of the identity of most of the writers has been suppressed．The official documents in Appendix D,　however，are given in full.　The originals or certified copies of these letters and documents have been examined by me and are being held in safekeeping. Photographs，motion picture films and other supporting evidence are also on record.

It remains only to express my personal thanks to those whose counsel or assistance I have sought in connection with the preparation of this volume, which is dedicated to the cause of collective security and to the prevention，through that means，of horrors such as it has been a painful task to set forth in these pages.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　H．J．TIMPERLEY

Shanghai，
March 23，1938.

CONTENTS 目次

Chapter

Foreword (Timperley)

序（ティンパレー）

(洞富雄教授の解説）

Chapter I Nanking's Ordeal (Bates & Magee)

第一章　南京の試煉（ベイツ博士＆マギー牧師）

Chapter II Robbery, Murder and Rape (Magee)

第二章　略奪・殺人・強姦（マギー牧師）

Chapter III Promise and Performance (Bates)

第三章　約束と現実（ベイツ博士）

Chapter IV The Nightmare Continues (Bates)

第四章　悪夢は続く（ベイツ博士）

Chapter V Terror in North China

第五章　華北における暴虐

Chapter VI Cities of Dread

第六章　恐怖の都市