It was 1 who sat in H. M.S Woodlark (not Woodcock) and gave Mx, Ransome the information on which he based that account—and T am pained to find Mr, Ransome hax misrepresented the facts.
'The bald truth about the evacua tien of Kiukiang on January 7 is that, if the foreign women had not been removed two days before ant if the foreign' men had not been called off the streets at 10 a.m. on that morning, for would have been raped and foreign men murdered as at Nanking.
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