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...Diplomat Allison had already contributed to international concord by spying that he personally accepted previous apologies made by less prominent Japanese authorities, adding, however, that the Government of the United States would, of course, make its own decisions about a matter so important. Soon thereafter Washington received from John Allison a dispassionate account of that important matter...
...Nanking, where outrages by Japanese soldiers had continued for over a month, Third Secretary Allison and Charles Riggs of Nanking University, a U. S. citizen, went out last week with a Chinese woman. Their object was to try to identify Japanese soldiers whom she accused of having raped her thrice. Since Japanese soldiers had taken the woman from the agricultural implement shop of Nanking University, Mr. Riggs had applied to Third Secretary Allison for help...
...Allison, according to his official report, was escorted by Japanese gendarmes. They advised Secretary Allison and Mr. Riggs not to enter a building into which they had agreed to take the Chinese woman so that she might point out the rapists. Then they pushed her roughly through the gate, and as Messrs Allison & Riggs impulsively moved to follow, a Japanese sentry shouted in English "Back! Back...
...backed up slowly," cabled Third Secretary Allison in his report, "but before I had time to get out of the gate he slapped me across the face and then turned and did the same to Mr. Riggs...
...Allison, who speaks Japanese, diplomatically confined himself to adding that the sentry "livid with rage . . . shouted at us in a most offensive manner," grabbed Mr. Riggs, tore the collar and some buttons from his shirt...