1945年3月23日のCHINA LANTERN記事での南京事件への言及

日本軍によるマニラでの虐殺に関連する記事です。

Burning Of People Ordered By Tokyo

SAN FRANCISCO (ANS) - The destruction of Manila by the Japanese Imperial marines followed direct orders from Tokyo. Brig. Gen. carols P. Romulo, resident commissioner on the Philippines said last week, "the rape of Nanking was a primeval instinct of the Japanese asserting itself. Manila's destruction was studied and systematic. In the walled city of Intramuros, the Japanese herded 1,700 male civilians, doused the fort with kerosene and burned it. Only three escaped. Women and children streamed through a wall-breach from United States artillery and the Japanese mowed them down with machine guns. We have captured documents to prove this was all on direct orders from Tokyo. I am going to read them on the floor of Congress."

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マニラでの虐殺を南京事件と比較して、南京事件は衝動的な残虐行為（primeval instinct）であったのに対して、マニラ虐殺は計画的だったという指摘です。
1945年3月の時点でもそれなりに南京事件の性質が知られていたと言う事でしょうね。