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DescriptionNanking telegram Harold John Timperley.gif	English: The attached paper (text of the article written by Timperley) of the telegram from Tokyo (Foreign Minister Kōki Hirota) to Washington (Embassy of Japan in the United States of America) on the article written by Harold John Timperley, intercepted, deciphered by American intelligence on February 1, 1938. Later published by NARA (US National Archives and Records Administration) at September, 1994. 日本語: 東京 (外務大臣廣田弘毅) からワシントン (在アメリカ合衆国日本大使館) に送られたハロルド・J・ティンパーリの書いた記事に関する電文の附属資料 (ティンパーリの書いた記事の内容)。1938年2月1日にアメリカ諜報部に傍受および暗号解読されたもの。後にNARA（アメリカ国立公文書記録管理局で1994年9月に公開。）
Date	4 May 2007, 16:16:22
Source	published by NARA (US National Archives and Records Administration) at September, 1994.
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Text:

"Since return (to) Shanghai (a) few days ago I investigated reported atrocities committed by Japanese Army in Nanking and elsewhere. Verbal accounts (of) reliable eye-witnesses and letters from individuals whose credibility (is) beyond question afford convincing proof (that) Japanese Army behaved and (is) continuing (to) behave in (a) fashion reminiscent (of) Attila (and) his Huns. (Not) less than three hundred thousand Chinese civilians slaughtered, many cases (in) cold blood. Robbery, rape, including children (of) tender years, an insensate brutality towards civilians continues (to) be reported from areas where actual hostilities ceased weeks ago. Deep shame which better type (of) Japanese civilian here feel - reprehensible conduct (of) Japanese troops elsewhere heightened by series (of) local incidents where Japanese soldiers run amock (in) Shanghai itself. Today North China Daily News reports (a) particularly revolting case where (a) drunken Japanese soldier, unable (to) obtain women and drink he demanded, shot (and) killed three Chinese women over sixty and wounded several other harmless civilians."

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