Important Statement by Two American Refugees: All Through the Day Signs of Preconcerted Plan: Attack Finally Called off by Bugles From the following most important statement of evidence of the deliberate intention in the Southern command of attacking foreigners we omit only those portions covered by other reports.
The entrance of the Kuoming} soldiers into Nanking on the morning of March 24 was marked by 4 bitter and obviously predetermined; tack upon the lives of all foreigners and their property, Before the foreigners could be finally gotten to the destroyers on the river at least six had been killed and_ several] wounded. One British marine vas also killed. Those killed were:—Dr, 8. Smith and the harbour master (British), Dr. J. E. Williams, Vice-President'of the University of Nanking (American), one French and one Italian Roman Catholic priest, and one or more Japanese, Those wound-include Miss Anna Moffatt of the attendance of an officer anda group lof soldiers who were quartered on, the ground floor.
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