Shanghai...some three square miles of the city and large parts of its environs had been devastated by artillery shelling and by air and naval bombardment.Nearly a quarter of a million Chinese had been killed,including many women and children who had fought on the front lines.Japan had suffered 9,115 dead and 31,257 wounded..
戰火下的上海。。。
On November 11, 1937, after securing control of Shanghai, the Japanese army started the 180 miles advance on the capitol of Nanking.The city walls were reached by the 8th December 1937.
南京
..Generals Matsui and Asaka insisted on staging a triumphal victory parade on horseback down the broad main thoroughfare of Nanking on December 17...at 2pm ..General Matsui,accompanied by Admiral Hasegawa,concluded the victory ceremony by bowing to the east and raising the Sun Flag from the front of the former Kuomintang Government office building."Banzai for His Majesty the Supreme Commander!" shouted Matsui three times.More than twenty thousand assembled combat troops--one third the total number occupying the city--echoed in unison.
不可一世的日軍攻入南京時,舉行閱兵。途徑國民黨黨部。