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不過請不要把檔案流傳出去，謝謝。年份大家應該要知道，所以我就不註明了。
FORMOSA KILLINGS ARE PUT AT 10,000
Foreigners Say the Chinese Slaughtered Demonstrators Without Provocation
By TILLMAN DURDIN
Special to The New York Times.
NANKING, March 28 - Foreigners who have just returned to China from Formosa
corroborate reports of wholesale slaughter by Chinese troops and police during
anti-Government demon strations a month ago.
These witnesses estimate that 10,000 Formosans were killed by the Chinese
armed forces. The killing were described as "completely unjustified" in view
of the nature of the demonstrations.
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 of organized the parades.
Foreigners who left Formosa a few days ago say that an uneasy peace had been
established almost everywhere, but executions and arrests continued. Many
Formosans were said to have fled to the hills, fearing they would be killed if
they returned to their homes.
Three Dasy of Slaughter
An American who has 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. In the poorer sections the streets
were said to have been littered with dead.
There were instances of beheadings and mutilation of bodies, and women were
raped, the American said. Two foreign women, who were at Pingtung near Takao,
called the actions of the Chineses soldiers there a "massacre." They said
unarmed Formosans took over the administration of the town peacefully on
March 4 and used the local radio station to caution against violence.
Chineses were well received and invited to lunch with the Formosan leaders.
Later a bigger group of soldiers came and launched a sweep through the steets.
The people were machine-gunned. Groups were rounded up and executed. The man
who had served as the town's spokesman was killed. His body was left for a day
in a park and no one was permitted to remove it.
A Briton described similar events at Takao, where unarmedFormosans had taken
over the running of the city. He said that after serveral days Chinese
soldiers from an outlying fort deployed through the streets, killing hundreds
with machine-guns and rifles and raping and looting. Formosan leaders were
executed. Thousands were thrown into prison, many bound with thin wire that
cut deep into the flesh.
Leaflets Trapped Many
The foreign witnesses reported that leaflets signed with the name of Genera-
lissimo 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 impri-
soned or executed.
"There seemed to be a policy of killing off all the best people," one forei-
gner asserted.
The foreigners' stories are fully supported by reports to every important
foreign embassy of legation in Nanking.
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 jur-
isdiction of the Allied Supreme Command of be mand 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."
The New York Times.
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是那些照亮別人，卻沒有光環的人。
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