KEPT ORDER AT NANKING
International Volunteers (Eeceived 20. 8.45 a.m.; LONDON, Dec. 19. Eeuter's correspondent at Nanking, who has arrived at Shanghai, cables that one of the most striking humanitarian acts in the present warfare wa3 carried otit by an international committee of volunteers who, after the withdrawal of the Administration from the capital, were the only etable force in Nanking The committee preserved order in the refugee zone throughout the bombing and shelling preceding the capture tof the city and did not permit an armed man to penetrate the zone, into which thousands of terror-stricken civilians flocked. The committee, by negotiation with the Japanese, also prevented the possibility of further liorror and bloodshed, as the Japanese avoided bombtng and ehelling the zone.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 74, 20 December 1937, Page 7
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