Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ At Shanghai's North Station troop trains were arriving every few minutes jammed to the roof with Chinese soldiers from Nanking.
"I ran out to the Nanking Road side of the narrow lounge, hurdling overturned tea tables, chairs and prostrate forms of guests seeking the safety of the floor. Through the gaping windows on the Nanking Road I could see at least 50 persons writhing on the sidewalk and roadway. Three...
"Out on the street I saw a white woman crouched in the middle of Nanking Road, assisting her daughter in giving birth to a child, while a hail of death pelted from the skies. . . . Ambulance attendants pawed over bleeding figures in the street, selecting only those who had a chance...
Replied a Nanking Foreign Office spokesman: "If Kawagoe desires to open negotiations, there will be negotiations."
"Brightness Itself." In Nanking last week the Dictator of China, wise and watchful Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, manifestoed: "China is determined to fight to the last man! . . . The policy of our Government has been consistent from beginning to end; namely, that we cannot surrender any territory or allow our sovereignty to...