南京国際委員会の委員長であるジョン・Ｈ・Ｄ・ラーベからの南京日本軍司令官への感謝状。Letter of thanks from John H. D. Rabe, Chairman of the International Commission on Nanking, to the Commander of the Japanese Army in Nanking.
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 pr...