Bring On the Butcher

One woman was raped 37 times. Another told how the soldier who was raping her became annoyed with the cries of her child, put a quilt over its head and smothered it. Any woman over ten and under 70 was eligible.

Rape was not all: 12,000 stores and houses were stripped of food, clothing, bedding, money, watches, pictures, even carpets. Some of the looting was done systematically, by gangs with trucks supervised by officers.

Rape and loot were not all: 42,000 people, including soldiers and civilian men, women and children, were murdered, some as practice bayonet dummies.

Rape and loot and murder were not all: $75,000,000 worth of property was destroyed by fire.

This was Nanking in December 1937. If a military tribunal were to seek out the responsibility for this tragedy, it would find guilty the man who was directly responsible for the discipline of the first Japanese troops to enter the city: their commander, Lieut. General Prince Yashuhiko Asaka. Without recourse to tribunal, the Japanese High Command withdrew him from Nanking.

Last week it was reported that Prince Asaka had arrived in Manila, to "administer" the conquered portions of the Philippines.

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