And so people who had to stay behind because they didn’t have the money to flee with their families and a few small possessions, the poorest o the poor, are supposed to pay with their lives for the military’s mistakes! Why didn’t they force the well-off inhabitants, those 800,000 propertied citizens who fled, to stay? Why is it always the poorest people who forfeit their lives? (THE GOOD MAN OF NANKING by John Rabe, pp.51-52)
(原英文) “This evening we are receiving our first refugees and what heartbreaking stories they have to tell. They are ordered by Chinese military to leave their homes immediately; if they do not they will be considered traitors and shot. In some cases their houses are burned. Most of the people come from near South Gate and the southeast part of city.” (p24, “The Undaunted Women of Nanking”)
(原英文)In other words, on the 13th when your troops entered the city, we had nearly all the civilian population gathered in a Zone in which there had been very little destruction by stray shells and no looting by Chinese soldiers even when in full retreat. 発;ジョン・H・D・ラーベ 宛先:日本大使館 日付:1937年12月17日
4. Robert O. Wison(金陵大学病院医師)の家族宛12月18日付の手紙 「南京市の九割の地から中国人が居なくなり、掠奪を働く日本兵の集団がうろつくだけになっている。残りの一割の地に恐れおののく二十万人の中国人がひしめいている」 Nine-tenths of the city are totally deserted by Chinese and contain only roving bands of plundering Japanese. The remaining tenth contains almost two hundred thousand terrified Citizens. (出典:"Eyewitnesses to Massacre" p.394 )
Those of you who have lived in Nanking can never imagine how the streets look – the saddest sight I ever hope to see. Buses and cars upset in street, dead bodies here and there, with faces already black, discarded soldiers’ clothing everywhere, every house and shop looted and smashed if not burned. In the Safety Zone the streets are crowded – outside you seldom see anyone but Japanese.
6. ティンパーリ「戦争とは何か」
(原英文)It is to be noted that the incidents thus noted cover only the Nanking Safety Zone, and that the rest of Nanking was practically deserted until the end of January (翻訳)ここに記録した事例は南京安全区を対象にしたものに限られていることに注意が必要である。安全区の外は、(1938年)1月末まで事実上の無人地帯であった。