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> "The Japanese Army at Hong Kong," he said, "perpetrated the same kind of barbarities which aroused the horror of the civilized world at the time of the Nanking massacre of 1937. . . .
Important Asiatic collections received were 22,000 specimens from Indo-China, 4,500 from Yunnan, 2,000 from western China sent by the Lu-Shan Botanical Garden, 2,500 specimens from Szechuan, China, sent by Nanking University, and 12,000 specimens from Fiji. The Arboretum distributed 42,445 specimens. Many...
Remember the Rape of Nanking.
Ling Tan, his wife Ling Sao, their three sons, their daughters, the wives and children of their sons were one of those timeless, slightly-too-noble peasant families to whose portrayal Mrs. Buck brings sympathetic talents. They held land not far from Nanking, land to which they were immemorially anchored...
Invasion. There came a day when, in the finest symbolic moment in the book, Ling Sao, cleaning a rice cauldron with sand, felt the vessel shiver in her hands, and ring with the rumor of distant artillery. The peasants vaguely began to realize that they must expect "the little dwarfs...