Unit 16 In History历史.ppt

Unit 16 In History Unit 16 In History Word bank siege 包围 execute 处死 extermination 灭绝 overland route 陆路 civilian 平民 rip 撕；扯 dispossess 使……无家可归 impede 阻挡；妨碍 din 嘈杂声 cannonading 炮轰 butchery 屠杀；残杀 ruins 废墟 coolie 苦力 loot 不义之财 jab 刺；戳；捅 bayonet 刺刀 Mass Killing in Nanking NANKING (from the U.S. gunboat OAHU), December 15 (1937) — “Four days in hell” would be the most fitting way to describe the siege and capture of Nanking The Japanese could have completed the occupation of the remainders of the city almost without firing a shot, for most of the trapped Chinese soldiers had thrown away their arms and would surrender. However, they chose the way of systematic extermination. It was like killing sheep. How many troops were trapped and killed it is difficult to estimate, but it may be anywhere between 5,000 and 20,000. owned cars, ripping off the flags. They even invaded the camps of refugees, robbing many poor of the few dollars they owned. This account is based on the obser- vations of myself and other foreigners remaining in Nanking throughout the capture of Nanking These things , too, I saw: Japanese soldiers forcing coolies and donkeys into service to carry their loot; Japanese machine gun- ners moving through the streets in the moonlight, killing anyone who ran and some who did not; Japanese searching houses one after another and arresting many plain-clothes suspects, many of these bound men being shot one by one. I saw the Japanese beating and jabbing helpless civilians, and in the True/False Exercises The last thing that the first group of foreign saw upon leaving Nanjing was a dozen of Chinese being killed one by one before the wall near the waterfront. The Japanese occupied the remainder of Nanjing without a shot fire. According to the report, the number of Chinese troops trapped and killed was estimated to be between 5,000 and 20,000. Streets throughout Nanjing were littered with the bodies of Chinese civili