In August 1937 Chiang Kai-shek hurled the finest troops of his new well-trained army against the Japanese at Shanghai. For three months there raged a battle which thrilled the nation and astonished the world. Chinese casualties were staggering, and Japan's losses were greater than at any time since the Russo-Japanese War. But it was too much to expect the Chinese to hold out indefinitely against the combined efforts of Japan's army, navy and air force. Shanghai fell November 12, 1937 ; and the Japanese immediately opened their campaign against Nanking, which was evacuated early in December.

    The seat of [the Chinese] government was now transferred to Hankow, where it is said that for some months there existed closer harmony and co-operation between the Communists and the Central Government than had existed at any time since they had come to the parting of the ways back in 1927. Resentment [against] a foreign foe .. and fear .. were driving them into comradeship of a sort in which they were able, temporarily at least, to lay aside their differences.

Comment the above published in 1953 by an author of "close association with China and the Chinese over a period of forty years".
    The above brief report looks credible. However, by some other reports, the Chinese Communists had ceased any actions against the Japanese on the emergence of the Hitler-Stalin Pact in 1939. (Please note that such events would be most thoroughly covered up by any Red propagandists). It seems that some kind of Red co-operation with the Natioanal Chinese led by Chiang Kai-shek had resumed in or after 1941.
    By some accounts, the Reds had done little or no fighting whatsoever against the Japanese. This might be true of the period 1939-41 ; but this could get easily generalised and inaccurate if applied to the broade context. There would have been no reason for any alliances or pacts with the Communists were they not doing at least some fighting against the Japanese.
    However, the Sino-Japanese conflict had been never seen by the Reds as anything but an opportunity to forward their lines, if these were at the time any different from the lines of J. Stalin — or the notorious Sobelsohn alias "Kradek" vel Radek, who seems to have been one of Mao's masters at the so-called "Sun Yat-sen University" in Moscow (where the original propositions by Sun Yat-sen were largely ignored).
    The American allies of Chiang Kai-shek had been thoroughly fooled ; the USA government had been at the time ridden with J. Stalin's agents, some of them notably influential on the Chinese situation.
    Entirely honest men in the USA had been mislead into the "coalition government" claptrap, the sole purpose by any Reds of any 'coalition government' being for the Reds eventually to take over. This is rather simple, fundamentally, but the follies (and the villanies) of the period have often remained not resolved until this very day (2007).
    This "coalition government" patter was recently seen by me in an article about some recent tumult in Africa. Who of those writers is a plain idiot and who is a plain criminal, with that 'coalition government' misleading, I am not always in mood to investigate. You have been warned, the reader, about any 'coaltition government' (with any Reds or the like), for this type of deceit has been going on for a very long period already.

Note

The alleged 'Nanking Massacre' : Japan's rebuttal to China's forged claims / Takemoto Tadao and Ohara Yasuo. Also Called Saishin "Nankin daigyakusatsu" : sekai ni uttaeru Nihon no enzai : Nichi-Ei bairingaru Publisher Tokyo : Meisei-sha, 2000. Paging ix, 155, 159 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. Notes Title also in Japanese. Includes bibliographical references and index. Text in English and Japanese.

An Open Letter

Date : 27 Feb 2008,
From : me (W. Paul Tabaka),
To : Takemoto Tadao and Ohara Yasuo,
Subject : Disinformation.

Dear Sirs,
    You say, "China's forged claims". I suppose, you do not mean that some 2 billion people (or what's the latest number) have been forging claims against Japan.

Who has been forging claims is normally most carefully hidden by those who did. As a general rule, one could expect any authors of any forged claims such as could lead to disagreement, as in this instance, between China and Japan to be located as far from China and Japan as humanly possible.

Generally, one does not expect gross atrocities to go unnoticed for a period of at least one generation. That is my main question regarding these events.

Author of "The Rape of Nanking" is unfortunately not to be contacted, by the reports found in the Internet : "On Tuesday, November 9, 2004 at about 9 a.m., [Iris] Chang was found dead in her car by a county water district employee on a rural road south of Los Gatos and west of State Route 17, in Santa Clara County. Investigators concluded that Chang had shot herself through the mouth with a revolver. At the time of her death she had been taking the medications Depakote and Risperdal to stabilize [?] her mood."

Reportedly, the grandparents of Iris Chang had been witness to the events in Nanking 1937-38. On the face of it there is nothing unlikely in such a proposition. Nor would it be impossible for Ms. Chang to have some materials planted on her which were forged planted on her, which might seem to her to agree with what she knew from her own family.

So far, I find no major sources of the period mention any major atrocities in Nanking. No such a thing was mentioned by Chiang Kai-shek ; no such thing but mentioned by any of the well-recognised authors then present in China, whether pro-Red or anti-Communist or more or less impartial. There are, I gather, reports from the judicial proceeding in Japan shortly after the war, when General Matsui was deemed responsible for the events, rightly or not. These may contain some factual material.

[In the meanwhile I learned of one Western eyewitness in Nanking 1937-38, Tillman Durdin.

There are also other authors found mentioned in the Internet in this one connection. Tillman Dardin was there and this is fairly credibly attested by one source I have seen. The other ones were known also to have been present in China at the time. Whether they had been in fact present in Nanking I have not yet confirmed to my own satisfaction (and any most fantastic articles might have appeared in the meanwhile. If you, the reader, think that the university professors are able to notice such things you may be severely mistaken.)

The NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY list only one title by Tillman Durdin who, as I find in other sources, had published a number of titles and had contibuted to a number of titles by others. WHY IS THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY so poor in the materials by Tillman Durdin?].

The UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA give :

Durdin, Tillman Title Papers, 1937-1974 Description 30.90 lin. ft. (19 archives boxes, 5 card file boxes, 16 records cartons, 11 oversize folders) Note Included in the collection are correspondence with staff of The New York times, copies of news articles authored by Durdin, subject files pertaining to mainland China and other East Asian nations, and photographs of the Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945, as well as biographical and financial documents concerning Durdin and his travels through Asia. The collection also includes an unpublished biography of Chaing Ch�ing, spouse of Mao Tse-tung, authored by Durdin�s wife Margaret Note Prominent journalist and editor for The New York times from 1937 until his retirement in 1974. During his career, Durdin�s work was focused chiefly on China and East Asia. As a reporter, he covered the Sino-Japanese Conflict from 1937 to 1945, the collapse of colonial rule in Indo-China, and the emergence of the Peoples� Republic of China Note Unpublished finding aid available in the library and on the internet: folder level control Language English

A Message to the University Professor : if the Academia continue playing or being total idiots in the face of what is really going on trouble will ensue. IF the legitimate scholar would not take good care of such materials as the listed above THEN some 'specialists' will.

This is more certain, Professor, than your tenure . . .

The SOLE item by Tillman Durdin found at the NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY :

Title China and the world, by Tillman Durdin. The rebirth of Formosa, by Robert Aura Smith. Imprint [New York, Foreign policy associatin] 1953. Description 63 p. illus., maps. 20 cm.