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美国《纽约时报》记者德丁(F·Durdin)1937年12月15日以前居于南京,他亲眼目睹了日本侵略军攻占南京后在城内大肆屠杀、焚烧、抢劫、强奸等滔天罪行,尽管德丁15日便离开了沦陷后的南京,他所目击、记录的仅仅是日军进城后最初几天的暴行,但这已经是十分骇人听闻的消息。12月18日《纽约时报》发表了德丁所撰写的这篇报道,将日军的暴行公诸于世,这是世界上最早的有关“南京大屠杀”的报道,它向全世界人民揭露了日本法西斯禽兽般的残暴行径,具有重要的史料价值。现特由南京大学历史系高兴祖教授将该文译出如后。
Ft Durdin, a New York Times correspondent who lived in Nanjing before December 15, 1937, witnessed the heinous crimes of wanton massacre, burning, looting and rape in the city after the Japanese invaders occupied Nanjing. Although Delin He left the occupied Nanjing on the 15th and witnessed and recorded only the atrocities of the first few days after the Japanese army entered the city. However, this is already a very appalling news. On December 18, The New York Times published a report by Theodin that made the atrocities committed by the Japanese public this world’s first report on the “Nanjing Massacre,” which exposed the people of the world Japan fascist animal-like atrocities, has important historical value. Now by the Department of History, Nanjing University professor Xing Xing Zu translated the article as after.