JAPANESE ATROCITIES
Chinese Offiicial Statement "RECORD OF HORROR AND ' SHAME" (Received 27, 1.30 p.m.) HANKOW, Dec. 26. A Chinese official statement confirms the reports of atrocitios after the Japanese entry into Nanking. It says the story of Japanese fury, pieced together from authentie foreign and Japanese sources, is a record of horror and shame, which will remain one of the darkest and bloodiest pages in the history of Japanese aggression. There was wholesale looting, and ravishment of women in groups. It is alleged that Chinese soldiers were tied together in batches of 50 and placed between lines of machine-guns.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 79, 27 December 1937, Page 7
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