A Mission under Duress by Lu Suping;

Author:Lu, Suping;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UPA
Published: 2010-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

ENCLOSURE NO. 1-I

TO DESPATCH NO. _____

DATED Feb. 25, 1938.

University of Nanking

25 December, 1937.

Mr. M. Tanaka,

Japanese Embassy,

Dear Mr. Tanaka:

I have tried for a couple of days to reframe from troubling you further. However, many difficulties occur every day, and today they are worse than usual. Now parties of stray soldiers without discipline or officers are going everywhere, stealing, raping, and taking away women. Some cases follow:

(1) Just now soldiers forcibly entered the university and towed away a truck used to supply rice to refugees.

(2) In our Sericulture Building alone there are on the average more than ten cases per day of rape or of abducting women.

(3) Our residences continue to be entered day and night by soldiers who injure women and steal everything they wish. This applies to residences in which Americans are now living, just the same as to others.

(4) Soldiers frequently tear down the proclamations put up by your military police.

(5) This morning an American member of our staff was struck by an officer who suddenly approached him and angrily tried to tear off the arm band supplied by your Embassy.

(6) Other buildings not mentioned above are daily entered several times each, by soldiers who utterly disregard your proclamations, looking for women and for loot.

(7) Despite this disorder caused entirely by soldiers, we have no guard whatever and no military police have been seen near us.

With thanks for your continued interest.

(Signed) M. S. Bates

ENCLOSURE NO. 1-J

TO DESPATCH NO. _____

DATED Feb. 25, 1938.

Subject: University of Nanking

Attack on Charles H. Riggs.

3 P’ing Ts’ang Hsiang

Nanking, December 25th, 1937.

To the Officers of the Imperial Japanese Embassy,

Nanking.

Dear Sirs:

This morning about 10:00, Mr. Riggs found several soldiers in the house at No. 29 Hankow Road and heard a woman cry. The woman, who was about 25-30 years old, tapped herself and motioned for Mr. Riggs to come. One soldier had her in tow. Other soldiers were in the house. She grabbed Riggs’ arm. The other soldiers came out of the house and all of them went on and left the woman with Mr. Riggs. She had been out to buy things and the soldiers took her. Her husband was taken four days ago and had not come back. She wanted Mr. Riggs to escort her back to the Refugee Camp at the Military College on Hankow Road. So Mr. Riggs escorted her east on Hankow Road and almost to the University Gardens and there they met an inspection officer with two soldiers and an interpreter.

The officer grabbed Mr. Riggs hands out of his pockets and grabbed his armband, which had been issued him by the Japanese Embassy. He swatted Mr. Riggs hands when he put them back in his pockets. As near as he could tell, the officer asked Riggs who he was, but neither could understand the other. He then hit Mr. Riggs on the chest hard. Mr. Riggs asked him what he meant and that made the officer angry. The officer motioned for his passport but Mr. Riggs did not have it with him.

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