San Francisco, June 11.
Dr. George A. Fitch, International Y.M.C.A. leader, today revealed he photographed two reels of movies of Japanese atrocities in Nanking from which still pictures appeared in "Life" and "Ken" magazines without credit because of his colleagues' advice that it might result in the confiscation of Y.M.C.A. property in the Orient, Showing the film to selected audiences, Dr. Fitch said "in an article in the San Francisco "Chronicle" entitled, "The Rape of Nanking," shaula be interpreted as a gesture of the International Y.M.C.A. against Japanese aggression.
He said the films had been taken secretly in hospitals and other points of the former Chinese capital city. He asserted the films were irrefutable evidence of "one of the greatest mass massacres and scenes of bestiality in history."
'The films show bayonet scars om pregnant women, atrocities performed on children and the evidence of the slaying of Chinese women after rape. Dr. Fitch blamed the atrocities on the sudden relaxation of discipline after- four months' fighting. He said continued appeals to the Japanese leaders had been without results—United Press,
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