"The people of China are shocked and enraged as they never were before, The barbarous acts of the Japanese soldiers have dug deep into their hearts, and they are determined to stand by their fallen comrades, until the wrongs that were done to them shall have been vindicated, "The Headquarters of the Gan son Commander of the Shanghai-Woosune District and the Special Municipality of Greater Shanghai, hereby solemnly declare that they are one with the people in their righteous indignation and are Iike= wise determined to protest, by eon crete measures, against the deliberate action of the Japanese soldiers in Twinan; but they, as military and municipal authorities of this district, mindful of the fact that as n civilized nation, we should properly uphold international laws and morality, will, however, accord full protection to the life and property of Japanese subjects, residing. under their Government.""—KN0
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.