Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The highest Japanese officer in China's former capital Nanking, His Highness Lieut. General Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, this week expressed to Third Secretary John M. Allison of the U. S. Embassy his apologies.
2) That south of Nanking forces apparently composed of Chinese soldiers who recently fled this former capital, plus some fresh troops, recaptured an area of 850 square miles, including four cities;
Of some 6,000 Protestant missionaries working in China at the outbreak of the present war, only about 300 have left the country. In some cases in battle areas where there are wounded to care for, the missionaries remain at the colleges and universities, hospitals and medical missions where for...
Before the Japanese encircled Nanking, the gunboat Panay-day before it was sunk-evacuated most foreigners from the doomed city and the Chinese defense commander, General Tang Sheng-chi, fled, leaving his officers and men to their fate. During the four terrible days between the departure of the Panay and...
Two missionary professors, Dr. Lewis S. C. Smythe and Dr. Miner Searle Bates of the University of Nanking, helped organize a Nanking safety zone which, although the Japanese merely spared it from concentrated bombardment, probably saved thousands of civilian lives. To this zone went thousands of frantic Chinese soldiers, eager...