Gen. Yanagawa's army did not use artillery in the attack on Hangchow out of consideration for an American hospital) there, and captured the place with hand-to-hand fighting. This was greatly appreciated, especially by third-country nationals.
Futan University, in Kiangwan, Shanghai, where Chinese troops offered most stubborn resistance, has been thoroughly repaired. It is being used by the Reformation College, where a reborn education, based on Japanese-Chinese friendship, is being taught. Many Chinese primary schools were wrecked in the warfare, but they have been restored to their former, or better, condition.
Gen. Iwane Matsui, commander-chief of the Japanese forces attacking Nanking, in his message to the Nanking commander, Gen. Tang San-chi, demanding surrender of the city, before the general assault was started. expressed deep regret if the splendid culture preserved in Nanking should perish in warfare.
Despite the furious battle that followed, the Japanese army succeeded in sparing the celebrated mausoleums and many other historic objects. It might be mentioned here that when ihe Yanagawa army attacked Hangchow it managed to preserve the objects of Oriental culture there.
Many precious books that were in the libraries at Shanghai, Nanking and Hangchow were either carried away into the interior by the Chinese soldiery or sold to people in the United States and Britain to raise war funds. The famous Ssu Ku Eney. clopédia, which was at Hangchow, was carried away to some unknown place. The Japanese army has made great efforts to preserve the Chinese libraries, and has collected a large number of books for the libraries at Shanghai, Soochow, Nanking, Hangchow, Chinkiang and elsewhere. For Nanking alone it has collected some 600,000 books.
Last year the Japan-China Culture Society was founded at Nanking to contribute to cooperation and cul-ural exchange. The combination of japanese and Chinese popular minds will form the foundation of politics, diplomacy, military affairs and economics cultural reconstruction is greatly important to remove the causes of clashes between Japanese and Chinese public feelings and their consciousness as Orientals, which lay behind the China Incident, The Japanese must remember that China has its own culture with a background of 4000 years, and the cultural level, specially of the intelligentsia of central and south China, is far higher than is superficially seen by the Japanese. Conceit and self-satisfaction are not agreeable to reconstruction of the moral culture of East Asia.
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