日中関係

初めて、極東軍事審判の諸國法官らは南京虐殺の事實を確認した事が有ります。僕は米國歴史専門家の結論を信じるだけです。更に多くの米國歴史専門家は米國の国家公文書及び記録室の機關で南京虐殺の証拠を持出して全ての日本の頑固者を屈服させます。その外、歴任の自民黨政府の首相や昭和天皇は極東國際軍事審判の結果を敢えて否定した勇氣がなかった。日本の民間人や社會の階層らは南京虐殺の事實や極東國際軍事審判の結果をどう討論しても、彼達も日本政府の對外聲明を變える事が出来ません。

其れは大日本帝國の外務大臣の廣田弘毅さんが華盛頓の日本領事館に出した電報でした。

From: Tokyo (Hirota)
To: Washington
January 17, 1938

#227. Received from Shanghai as #176

Extra message

"Since return to Shanghai a few days ago I investigated reported atrocities committed by Japanese Army in Nanking and elsewhere. Verbal accounts of reliable eye-witnesses and letters from individuals whose credibility is beyond question afford convincing proof that Japanese Army behaved and is continuing to behave in a fashion reminiscent of Attila and his Huns. Not less than three hundred thousand Chinese civilians slaughtered, many cases in cold blood. Robbery, rape, including children of tender years, an insensate brutality towards civilians continues to be reported from areas where actual hostilities ceased weeks ago. Deep shame which better type of Japanese civilian here feel - reprehensible conduct of Japanese troops elsewhere heightened by series of local incidents where Japanese soldiers run amuck in Shanghai itself. Today North China Daily News reports a particularly revolting case where a drunken Japanese soldier, unable (to) obtain women and drink he demanded, shot and killed three Chinese women over sixty and wounded several other harmless civilians."

*This message was sent in enciphered English and is the one referred to in S.I.S.#1257

#1263

＞＞Not less than three hundred thousand Chinese civilians slaughtered＜＜

少なくとも300,000萬の中國平民が虐殺されました。