The new Japanese Garrison Commander at Nanking, General Amaya, on 5 February 1938, at the Japanese Embassy in Nanking made a statement to the Foreign diplomatic corps criticizing
the attitude of the foreigners who had been sending abroad reports of Japanese atrocities at Nanking and upbraiding them for encouraging anti-Japanese feeling. This statement by Amaya
reflected the attitude of the Japanese Military toward foreigners in China, who were hostile to the Japanese policy of waging an unrestrained punitive war against the people of China.
間接的な関係で、W.H.ドナルドが
"As long as our sovereignty is endangered, we will not consider peace."
と宣言しているのが興味深いです。
CHINESE WILL RESIST TO THE END. - The Sydney Morning Herald, November 12, 1937 http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17410685
It is to be noted that the incidents thus recorded cover only the Nanking Safety Zone, and that the rest of Nanking was practically deserted until the end of January and most of the time was without foreign observers during this whole period.
There were only 8,550 persons in the districts studied outside the wall, which suffered so terribly from the burning
by the Chinese army and form violence, and in March were still more dangerous on the whole than the inner city.
