Word: matsui
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fairly full eyewitness and photographic data on the butchery and rape which reigned in Nanking for over a month after this capital of China fell. There has been the most drastic shakeup by Tokyo of officers whose Japanese soldiers went berserk in Nanking. Even long-eared General Iwane Matsui, the Commander-in-Chief of the victorious Japanese offensive, has been recalled to Japan...
General Iwane Matsui, called "the Long-Eared" (a traditional Japanese sign of wisdom), last week made his triumphal entry into captured Nanking, the abandoned Chinese capital, outside whose walls stands the $3,000,000 tomb of sainted Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Father of the Chinese Revolution." That historic moment meant more to General Matsui than it would to most Japanese, for Revolutionist Sun spent many years in Japan, became a close friend of Matsui, who took up the doctrine of Pan-Asianism to which grateful Dr. Sun at the time enthusiastically subscribed...
...last resting place of his old friend it was General Matsui's duty last week to complete the butchery of those Chinese troops, tragically misled, who, against the advice given by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's German military advisers, had been left to defend Nanking. It was a tiresome job, lining up hundreds of prisoners and shooting them down batch after batch. However, according to foreign correspondents who witnessed some of the executions, Japanese soldiers invited Japanese sailors as their guests and apparently all of them "thoroughly enjoyed...
...China hands could scarcely remember an instance in which a Japanese commander has ever behaved with such moderation. To them it reflected General Matsui's plain eagerness to induce Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to sue speedily for peace. Chinese Generalissimo Chiang had meanwhile left Nanking, which advancing Japanese forces were rapidly approaching, and arrived at the mountain resort Kuling. There German Ambassador Dr. Oskar Trautmann offered Berlin's services a.s a mediator between China and Japan, apparently was rebuffed. The Soviet Embassy reportedly sent an attache to urge Premier Chiang to join China's Kuomintang Party...
Claiming he had not known any Japanese troops were trespassing on U. S.-guarded ground, the Japanese commander promptly ordered their withdrawal. Same night a representative of the victorious Japanese commander in chief at Shanghai, long-eared General Iwane Matsui, visited the scene of the bombing, and there under the dim glow of street lights promised the Settlement police commissioner, British Major F. W. Gerrard, to withdraw at once all Japanese forces from the 30 square block area, leave further investigation of the bomb outrage to the Shanghai Municipality...