Goods stored in Japanese shops on Mukden and Liaocheng Roads were looted by Chinese troops, the reports alleged, The shops on Chungshan, Canton and En-hsien Roads, however, escaped damage, It seems they used the old method Of having a detective confined as an inmate in the detention room to record the suspect's words in his unguarded moment.
Part of Nakane's version of the case and his account of the alleged tortures, a very human document, as printed by the "Chugai Shozyo, a leading dai in Tokyo, reads as follows:
*....In this way the examination began in earnest The method is beyond description. I was beaten and kicked, my hair was pulled hard, I was ground under heels, hung upside down, made to swallow water, and so forth. Those sleepless nights of torture made me almost insane. 1 kept to my story and repeated over and over again that I did not do this thing. 'Stubborn devil" and 'Shameless Nakano!' were the epithets they heaped upon me.
"After enduring tortures day after day, I became desperate. In a fit of utter despair, I confessed to that terrible crime, thinking I should Letter be dead than be subjected to such tortures any longer
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.