Nanjing Massacre-- News paper article

It need not have happened!!!




The Nanking massacre need not have happened.  Li Zhongyan(李仲言) said that Nanking was a "strategic dead-end" that was indefensible.  Why did the massacre take place?  Apart from the cruelty of the Japanese soldiers, the bureaucratic politics of the Chinese people is the other reason.

There are many sects within the Chinese military, just like today we have the British remnants, the Fujian native communists, the Shanghai gang and others in Hong Kong; they don't like each other and they try to derail each other. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) favored the Whampoa Military School officers, who were known as the Central Army and received special favors . Other sects such as Zhang Xueliang's(張學良) Northeastern Army, Fung Yujiang's (豐郁江) Northwestern Army, Li Zhongyan's (李仲言) Guizhou (貴州) Army, Chen Jitong's (陳其恫) Guangdong Army and Tong Sungzi's(唐生智) Sichuan Army were all other treated as outsiders.

When the Japanese army rolled in, the Northeastern Army's Zhang Xueliang (張學良) staged a mutiny and forced Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) to fight the Japanese.  This made Chiang (蔣介石) even more antagonistic towards the non-Whampoa sects.  When the Japanese army approached Nanking, Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) called for a military conference and asked for a volunteer to defend the city.  All the officers stayed quiet.  Chiang (蔣介石) glared at Tong Sungzi (唐生智), who was forced to stand up and say, "I will shall defend." And then he swore that he would defend Nanking to the death.
So Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) left Nanking and transferred the capital of the country to Wuhan (武漢).  Tong SIngzi (唐生智) sealed all the roads from Nanking to the north of the Yangtze River(長江) and he destroyed all the ferries.  So when the Japanese soldiers entered the city, the citizens of Nanking had nowhere to go.  But Tong Sungzi (唐生智) saved a boat for himself.  When Nanking fell, Tong(唐生智) got on the boat and left.  The defenders had no military command and surrendered.  When the Japanese army entered the city, they took the 50,000 to 60,000 Chinese prisoners of war to the shore of the Yangtze River and executed them, leaving the river filled with floating corpses and dyed blood red.