| 20万,30万、はっきりさせなきゃ。
中国サイドからの数字が出てます。
The Safety Zone covered 3.9 square kilometers, an area equal in size to New York’s Central Park. Before war broke out in Shanghai, the population of Nanjing was about one million. But when the conflict moved toward Nanjing, many of the city’s residents fled. According to a report issued by Wang Gupan, head of the Chinese National Police Force, on November 28, the population had dwindled to 200,000. On December 8 Tang Shengzhi, commander in chief of the Nanjing Defense Forces, issued strict orders to those 200,000 remaining residents to evacuate to the Safety Zone.4 Moreover, Documents of the Nanking Safety Zone states that the population of Nanking was 250,000 on January 14, 1938. Needless to say, these are not circumstances that would permit the massacre of 300,000 Chinese.
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