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Parent | Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury, April 10, 1946 |
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Date | 10 April 1946 |
Language | English |
Collection | David Nelson Sutton Papers |
Box | Box 14 |
Folder | Folder 61 | [Add Description] |
Repository | Virginia Historical Society |
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Tokyo Trial to Hear Full Story On N’King Rape
Tokyo, Apr. 10 – (UP) – The full documented story of the infamous Rape of Nanking by the Japanese in 1937 will probably be given to the world for the first time at the trial of top-ranking Japanese war criminals, as a result of information gathered by two members of the prosecution team.
Col. Thomas H. Morrow and David Nelson Sutton have completed a four-week tour of China, visiting Shanghai, Peiping, Chungking and Nanking and on occasions interviewing as many as 120 eye-witnesses in a single day. They are now returning to Tokyo with “hundreds” of documents.
The trials will start on or about May 15. The tribunal
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