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[Pleasantville 1938, R.D. Assn.].Yellow stiff wrappers, very old, covers bit dusty, else clean, contents very clean,solid example, [5+4] page articles, 14.3 x 19.5 cm., complete in 2 parts. * * RARE FIRST & ONLY OBSCURE EDITION * * . *** **** *** . . GEORGE A. FITCH READS HIS DIARY TO JOHN MALONEY . . WHO PUBLISHES HIS SHOCKINGLY BUT TRUE & BIZARRE STORY OF . . JAPANESE RAPE & ATROCITIES IN NANJING, CHINA . . THE FIRST EXTENSIVE ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN AMERICA . . ON THE JAPANESE RAPE OF NANJING, IN DECEMBER 1937 . . . WRITTEN BY A LONG-TIME AMERICAN MISSIONARY IN NANJING . . AND DIRECTOR OF THE Y.M.C.A. IN SHANGHAI & NANJING . . A TWO-PART ARTICLE COMPLETE AS ISSUED . . A TWO PART ESSAYS AND ARTICLES FROM 1938: . Part 1: "THE SACK OF NANJING" Part 2. "WE WERE IN NANJING" . This is an exceptionally RARE primary resource, reporting to the world the actual eye-witness account of Japanese brutality in Nanjing from December 1938 through January 1939. . The shocking truth was hard to believe, many Americans question the truthfulness of the article. Of course the article was 100% true. . Fitch read his diary and told John Maloney the Nanjing Rape story. Maloney had worked earlier as a staff member at the Shanghai Y.M.C.A., where Fitch was the director. Maloney published the article in "Ken" Magazine. It shocked the world ! . Fitch spent 80 years as a Missionary in China, he was also very was fluent in Chinese. He was born of missionary parents in China in 1883, and served as director of various Y.M.C.A. [Young Men's Christian Association] throughout north China. . He was resident Y.M.C.A. director in Nanjing, and friends with Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Premier Tong Shao-yi, and later Mao Tse-tung & Zhou En-lai, to mention just a few of the famous people he communicated with. . *** A THIRD ESSAY :"THE JAPANESE VERSION" OF THE "RAPE, MURDER AND BURNING OF NANJING" . Article title: "JAPANESE TROOPS GENTLY SOOTHE THE REFUGEES: Harmonious Atmosphere of Nanjing Develops Enjoyably." Extracted from a Shanghai newspaper article, January 8, 1938 . This article from Japanese military command disgracefully try to diffuse the facts of their brutality, murder, rape and burning of Nanjing from December 1938 to January 1939. The article has no credibility in view of the above two articles by eyewitness foreign missionaries and teachers at Jinling College. . ***. REFERENCES: . George A. FITCH.: MY EIGHTY YEARS IN CHINA, see this for "MOVE TO NANJING 1936-1937." Part 1 of a 2 part article. . [George A. FITCH].: "NANJING DOOMED 1937-1938." Part 2 of a 2 part article, from the above article. . George A. FITCH.: "SIEGE & OCCUPATION OF NANJING 1937-1838, et al. * HU, Hua-ling.: AMERICAN GODDESS AT THE RAPE OF NANJING The Courage Minnie Vautrin. [1937-1938] [Primary Resource By an Eye Witness Of The Rape of Nanjing] . ***.