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Document No. 1 (Z 1)

INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR NANKING SAFETY ZONE
5, Ninghai Road
December 14, 1937
Japanese Commander of Nanking.
Honorable Sir:
We come to thank you for the fine way your artillery spared the Safety Zone and to establish contact with you for future plans for care of Chinese civilians in the Zone.
The International Committee has taken responsibility for putting people into buildings' in the area, has stored rice and flour for feeding the population temporarily, and has taken control of the police in the area.
We would respectfully request that the Committee may:
1. Be favored with a Japanese guard at entrances to the Safety Zone.
2. Be allowed to police the inside of the area with its own civilian police who are armed only with pistols.
3. Be allowed to carry on sale of rice and operate its soup kitchens in the area.
a. We have stores of rice in other parts of the city and would like to have free passage of trucks to secure them.
4. Be allowed to continue the present housing arrangements until the common people can return to their homes. (Even then there will be thousands of homeless poor refugees to care for.)
5. Be given the opportunity to cooperate with you in restoring telephone, electric, and water services as soon as possible.

Yesterday afternoon an unforeseen situation developed when a number of Chinese soldiers were trapped in the northern part of the city. Some of them came to our office and pleaded in the name of humanity that we save their lives. Representatives of our Committee tried to find your Headquarters but got no farther than a captain on Han Chung Lu. So we disarmed all these soldiers and put them into buildings in the Zone. We beg your merciful permission to return these men to peaceful civilian life as is now their desire.
We would further like to introduce to you the "International Red Cross Committee of Nanking" with Rev. John Magee (American) as Chairman. This International Red Cross Committee has taken charge of the former military hospitals at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;, the Ministry of Railways, and the Ministry of War, the Red Cross Committee yesterday disarmed all men on these places and will see that these buildings are used only for hospital purposes. If it is possible to put all the wounded in it, we suggest transferring all the Chinese wounded to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building.
We will be glad to cooperate in any way we can in caring for the civilian population of this city.

Most respectfully yours,
International Committee for Nanking
Safety Zone
John H. D. Rabe, Chairman.
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR NANKING SAFETY ZONE
5, Ninghai Road
Telephones : 31961
32346
31641

Membership List
Name Nationality Organization
1. Mr. John H. D. Rabe, Chairman German Siemens Co.
2. Dr. Lewis S. C. Smythe, Secretary American University of Nanking
3. Mr. P. H. Munro-Faure British Asiatic Petroleum Co.
4. Rev. John Magee American American Church Mission
5. Mr. P. R. Shields British International Export Co.
6. Mr. J. M. Hanson Danish Texas Oil Co.
7. Mr. G. Schultze-Pantin German Shingming Trading Co.
8. Mr. Ivor Mackay British Butterfield and Swire
9. Mr. J. V. Pickering American Standard-Vacuum Oil Co.
10. Mr. Eduard Sperling German Shanghai Insurance Office
11. Dr. M. S. Bates American University of Nanking
12. Rev.W. P. Mills American Northern Presbyterian Mission
13. Mr. J. Lean British Asiatic Petroleum Co.
14. Dr. C. S. Trimmer American University Hospital
15. Mr. Charles Riggs American University of Nanking

INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS COMMITTEE OF NANKING
5, Ninghai Road.
Telephones : 32346
31641
31961
1. Rev. John C. Magee, Chairman
2. Mr. Li Chiiin-nan, Vice-Chairman
(Chinese Red Cross Society of Nanking)
3. Mr. W. Lowe, Vice-Chairman
4. Rev. Ernest H. Forster, Secretary
5. Mr. Christian Kroeger, Treasurer
6. Mrs. Paul de Witt Twinem
7. Miss Minnie Vautrin
8. Dr. Robert O. Wilson
9. Mr. P. H. Munro-Faure
10. Dr. C. S. Trimmer
11. Rev. James McCallum
12. Dr. M. S. Bates
13. Mr. John H. D. Rabe
14. Dr. Lewis S. C. Smythe
15. Rev. W. P. Mills
16. Mr. Cola Podshivoloff
17. Paastor Shen Yu-shu

Since contact could not be established with the Japanese Commander on December 14 and several groups of disarmed Chinese soldiers and civilians were tied up and marched off on that day in spite of the protests by the members of the Committee, the Committee decided that a more comprehensive statement regarding disarmed Chinese soldiers in the Zone should be made. So on the morning of December 15 the Chairman of the Committee addressed a letter to the Attache at the Japanese Embassy {now Vice-Consul) as follows (Doc. No. 2). This letter was presented to Mr. Fukuda at the same time as Document No. 1 during the forenoon of December 15. He had come to the Zone Headquarters to inquire about the Zone. Consequently, the statement {by the Chief of the Special Service Corps at noon that day was also an answer to this letter.

(See Document No. 4.)

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