893.01 Manchuria/763
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Nanking to the Chinese Legation58
Marshal Chang Hsiao-Liang reported by wire that, between September 18, 1931 and December 5, 1932, there were about fifty-eight thousand two hundred and forty-eight (58248) men killed in the Three Eastern Provinces, among those twelve thousand and twenty-six (12026) were civilians of the Provinces, twenty thousand two hundred and fourteen (20214) were Government troops, three hundred and ninety (390) were policemen, and twenty-five thousand six hundred and eighteen (25618) were volunteer forces. These people met their death in various ways. They were either executed, shelled, bombed, burned, buried alive, bayoneted, cut or chopped by knives, soaked with petroleum and burned, strangled, thrown into wells and drowned, or killed in other cruel ways.
- Copy of telegram transmitted to the Department by the Chinese Legation, December 10, 1932.↩