The Archive · 1937

Protest Cabled to Brussels

Japan Accused of Many Barbarous Acts Prest A. Conmearonoenr

Nanchang, Nov, 8, "Japan is invading China, wantonly bombing our cities in the interior, indiscriminately destroying. our cultural and educational institutions, and cruelly massacring our innocent civilians everywhere in China: Her facts of invasion are truly barbarous to the extreme! Only international sanctions can suppress Japan's. bararity, We are specially sending you this telegram requesting you to uphold justice."

This is a free translation of the telegram cabled to the Nine Power Conference in care of Ambassador Wellington Koo pt Brussels, October 25, by the Sino.foreign Christian body of the Nanchang Municipality, as a result of the resolutions reached at a special meeting convened for the express purpose of expressing indignation aiid onxloty over the Japanese aggression.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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