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New York 1938, Time. Full issue, focus on 4 China articles on 7 pages,very clean bright & solid, 26.8 x 5.5 cm.,with 23 black & white photos, 1 map, bright, clean & solid, a couple of small cover nicks. * RARE FIRST & ONLY ORIGINAL EDITION * . *** **** *** . . ONE OF THE FIRST AMERICAN ILLUSTRATED ARTICLES . . . ON THE JAPANESE RAPE OF NANJING [NANKING] . . . AND FOUR ARTICLES ON THE JAPANESE INVASION OF N. CHINA . . . THE MORAL DEFEAT OF THE JAPANESE IN NANJING . . * This is the earliest American record of the Japanese brutal invasion and leveling of Nanjing in 1937, and the ensuing animalistic "RAPE OF NANJING" by the Japanese army completely out of control and brutalizing the inhabitants of the capital city. . This reign of terror on the civilian population ran from December 13, 1938 through January 1938, resulting in what estimates run from 50,000 to 300,000 murdered Chinese. . Per Wikipedia citation below: " was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Imperial Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing [Nanking], then the capital of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War." . "The massacre occurred over a period of six weeks starting on December 13, 1937, the day that the Japanese captured Nanjing. During this period, soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army murdered Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants who numbered an estimated 40,000 to over 300,000, and perpetrated widespread rape and looting." . With 1 map, shows battle front in China and Japanese position. . *** THE ARTICLES: . "CHINA PUTS THE JAPANESE ARMY ON THE RUN: A Unified nation reverses it war fortunes." . "HANKOW TURNS OUT FOR A VICTORY PARADE" . "THESE ATROCITIES EXPLAIN JAP DEFEAT" "RAPE OF NANJING" . "SCOUTS SEE SOLDIERS TO WAR" . "CONFUCIUS, GREATEST SAGE OF THE ORIENT" . "GRAVEYARD OF 76 GENERATIONS" . "MOST SACRED OF CONFUCIAN EDIFICES" . "HEWN FROM 10 FEET OF SOLID SANDALWOOD" . The above articles are supported with 23 black & white photographs taken by American photographers in China for Life Magazine. . *** RARITY: This original example is nearly 85 years old. It is the exceptionally RARE First American published original illustrated article on the RAPE OF NANKING. This article shocked the world to the truth of the Japanese massacre of over 200,000-300,000 Chinese were killed per the 1947 International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo based on the evaluation of the Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal. . *** Photos posted to our website. . *** CONDITION: This is bound in the publisher's original pictorial stiff wrappers. There is some of the usual spine wear, all in all the contents are clean and solid. . *** REFERENCE: Seller Inventory # 38023502
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Title: MAY 16, 1938. 4 ARTICLES:a.[THE JAPANESE] "...
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