Re:ヴォートリンの記事
>>中国で日中戦争にであった婦人宣教師の体験談を集めた文集が、英国で1938年に刊行されています。
あ、...記憶で書いたら間違っていました。 刊行は1939年で、ロンドン以外にも、ニューヨークとトロントになっています。ただし、"Editor's
Preface"の日付は、1938年11月8日(上海)になっています。 ヴォートリンの記事の題名は、"In
Nanking"でした。 「婦人宣教師」だけではありませんでした。申し訳ありませんでした。 Ronald Ress
編,"Christians in Action A Record of Work in War-time China by Seven
Missionaries", Longmans, Green and Co., London/New York/Tronto,
1939 III. In Nanking (Minnie Vautrin),
pp.28-45
>ひょっとして、これですか? 東中野氏の「徹底検証」からです。
"The Chinese
recorder"は、長老教会(Presbyterian)の宣教団体の雑誌ですね。これでは、ありません。 スマイスの戦争被害報告も"The
Chinese
recorder"に掲載されたはずですが、残念ながら実物を見ておりません。(1934年以前のものなら、複写を入手可能ですが) ヴォートリンが「強姦」をとりたてて言わなかったことが理解できない人は、人の心というものを知らない人です。従って、資料の扱いも見当はずれになります。 なお、ヴォートリンの日記は後日清書されたものだと思いますので、執筆時期としては
The Chinese recorder
の記事のほうが、時間的に先になると思います。 しかし、東中野氏は驚かないでしょうね。「後日、日本を悪者にするために、噂を元に強姦について書き加えた」と、言えばいいわけですからね。
----- 書名: The
Chinese recorder 出版: Shanghai : American Presbyterian Mission
Press , 1912- 他の書名: The Chinese recorder : 教務雜誌||The Chinese
recorder : キョウム ザッシ The Chinese recorder : journal of the Christian
movement in China 注記: Other title information added from Vol. 46,
no. 1 (Jan. 1915): 教務雜誌; and in addition from Vol. 53, no. 7 (July
1922): Journal of the Christian movement in China 変遷注記: The
Chinese recorder and missionary journal Educational review : a
quarterly journal = 教育季報 / China Christian Educational Association
The Chinese recorder and educational review
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最後に、ヴォートリンの南京についての記述の一部をOCRで読み込みましたので、添付いたします。 ----- [Ronald
Ress,"Christians in Action", Longmans, Green and Co., London/New
York/Tronto, 1939] - p.34 - The city fell to the conquering army
on December 13th 1937. For perhaps a month, the Safety Zone, which
was about one‐eighth the area of the walled city,
housed apprommately 250,000 people. A few thousand
perhaps remained in their own homes to suffer even more
cruelly than within the shelter of the Zone. Sventy thousand were
sheltered in the 25 large camps, two-thirds of these being in the 11
camps which were housed in Christian institutions. At the time of
greatest danger there were 30,000 refugees at the University of
Nanking (a Christian institution) being housed in academic buildings
and residences; 3,600 at the Bible Teachers' Training School, more
than 3,000 in the Theological Seminary, and at least ten thousand
women and children in the buildings of Ginling College, the Christian
college for women of which Dr. Wu Yi-fang is president. Five months
later, - p.35 - five of the remaining six camps still open were in
these mission buildings and they were housing at that time almost
five thousand, mostly young women and children. Through the three
summer months, the Ginling College camp continued to protect and care
for almost eight hun- dred young women and girls for whom it was
unsafe to return to their homes. Through the years since their
founding these mission institutions have made many worthy
contributions to the life of China through the training given to its
youth, but the service rendered through the shelter offered to
the homeless and destitute and terror-stricken during these months
of intense danger is worth all they have cost the churches of the
West. Walls and woodwork are scarred, paint has been rubbed away by
countless feet, looks and hinges are broken and missing, but deep
gratitude to the Christian Church of the West exists in the hearts of
many who found shelter in the Safety Zone and the
Mission institutions. -----
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