The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-29
.jAPS EMULATE
 NAZIS' CRUELTY
Every Resident Co Hast Harmless Chlld" Killed ln
 Chinese Coastal Areas
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tOuAse4 tteB BtAH COte4p 4p0H0eas) san Francisco, April se.--CUpD-- Japanese troops, emulAtinR the Ger. mans ln the massacre oe Lidlce killed every resident, Co tho lasl haFtAless child" ln Chinese coastal areas where many of Mnj, Gen James g. Doollltlos flyers landed after bombing Tokyo, Secretary Q. TTeaxNry Henry Morgenthau, Jr. said lest night,
 MorgcnthaQ was notified of thI massacre by Ocneralkssimo Chlanr Kal-Shek of China ln Q cablegranl arriving yesterday. Ae made il public in An address at tho Wal Memorial Opera House. Just Q few days ago." Morgen, thau said, i've learned, with horror that tho Japanese had taken some og these gallant fighting men, whu were by all military law and prece- dent prisoners of war, and executed them.
 Nov, with q Geep sense Og shock and anger, l must bring you fur ther news. [ have here a cabie- gram which reached me thls morn- ing. It comes from 0eneralisslmc Chiang Kai.shek. Let me read il | to you"
 The text of the cablcgram:
 After they had been caught un. awares by the falling Of American bombs on TUyko, Japanese troops attacked tho costal areas of China where many of the American flyers hnd landed,
 '"These troops slaughtered every man, woman and child in those areas--let mo repeat--these Japan csc troops slaughtered every man, woman and child in those areas, reproducing on . wholesale scale the horrors which the world had been ct Lidlce, but about which people have been uninformed In these in- stances,
 "The dastardly execution of these ! American flyers, who were taken prisoners Of war, has made it clear to all Americans that We face an enemy who knows no codes of law or decency. The only language which such an enemy understands Is that of the weapons Of war, and In tho bond campaign which you are push- ing for the war effort our people wish you all success"
 The generalisyilno made no men, ton Of the number of Chinese slain by the Japanese, except indirectly In llkening it to a reproduction Ion Q wholesale scale" oe the Lidlce massacre.
 (At Lldice, CEechoslovakia, the Germans in June, iol2, shot "all malc adults of the town" and placed the women In concentration camps, sending the children D "apprupri. ate" educational institutions, in res prlsai for the assassination of Rein. hardt (the hangman) Heydrich. Lidice was Q village of 465 persons.)
 We have work ahead of us," Mor- gonthau said. We have much to do.
 Certainly we now have . clearer idea of the nature of the enemy with whom we ore dealing. If the Japanese will take special pains to march into . Chinese village, whose only crime is that of offering sane. tuaFy to . handful of American fly. CTS, and wipe out that village to the last harmless child, we no longer need to ask what tho Jap. aaeSe would do on marching into Q city like San Francisco"
 Recalling that the Japanese fired on the Pacific coast (at Santa Bar- bara, Caiis., bout Q year ago), Mor- genthau warned that # they rec turned, they are not going to come with submarines and deck guns"
 Let's not fool ourselves" he said. That's what we're up against