With 228 fast approaching, here’s the link to the original New York Times report: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F04E1DB143EE13BBC4151DFB566838C659EDE
For those who can’t see the news article, someone posted the contents over on facebook:
facebook.com/media/set/?set … 253&type=1
Some brief passages:
[quote=“the New York TImes”]The anti-Government demonstrations were said to have been by unarmed persons whose intentions were peaceful. Every foreign report to Nanking denies charges that Communists or Japanese inspired or organized the parades.
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An American who had just arrived in China from Taihoku said that troops from the mainland arrived there March 7 and indulged in three days of indiscriminate killing and looting. For a time everyone seen on the streets was shot at, homes were broken into and occupants killed.
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The foreign witnesses reported that leaflets signed with the name of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek promising leniency, and urging all who had fled to return, were dropped from airplanes. As a result many came back to be imprisoned or executed. “There seemed to be a policy of killing off all the best people,” one foreigner asserted.
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Formosans are reported to be seeking United Nations’ action on their case. Some have approached foreign consuls to ask that Formosa be put under the jurisdiction of Allied Supreme Command or be made an American protectorate. Formosan hostility to the mainland Chinese has deepened. Two women who described events at Pingtung said that when Formosans assembled to take over the administration of the town they sang “The Star Spangled Banner.” [/quote]
I actually went to the article because it had some rarely seen photos of 228 related public executions.
The same facebook link included a piece, called Terror in Taiwan, by Newsweek