Date of letter:1992-10-30
Address of author:Jinhua County, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province
Date of event:1939-1945
Location of event:Jinhua County, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province
Name of author:Jiang Wenguang
Name(s) of victim(s):Not mentioned
Type of atrocity:Air Bombings, Other Massacres, Biological/Chemical Warfare（AB, OM, BC）
Other details:The Japanese raided the area by bombing intensivelly and releasing biological and bacteriological weapons, which caused a large number of deaths. Note: The envelope is missing
Signature Solicitation for Demanding Damage Compensation from Japan
Our government never abandoned damage compensation from Japan
In 1972, the Chinese government abandoned the “War Compensation” claim toward Japan, but it did not announce to abandon the “Damage Compensation” claim. On May 23, the “Legal Daily” published an article by youth jurist Tong Zeng to explain the difference between the two kinds of compensations prescribed by international laws: War compensation refers to the compensation for losses sustained by the invaded countries when the defeated country launched invasion into other countries; damage compensation refers to compensation that must be undertaken by the invading country being defeated to compensation for multiple serious crimes committed against the people and properties of the invaded country, due to violation of laws of war and humanitarian rules during the war. After the WWII, Jews, Poland, and France all claimed huge amount of damage compensation on the ground of receiving Nazi persecution. (extracted from the “Legal Daily”)
Survey materials (Fourth)
Surveyor: Jiang Wenguang
Survey receiver: County archive administrator
Date of survey: October 30, 1992
Venue of survey: Jinhua City, District and County Archives
Contents:
Summary of death toll, number of injured people and property loss in Jinhua area during the Japanese invasion period
According to incomplete statistics, from 1934 to 1941, due to frenetic and indiscriminate bombing, “cleaning up the countryside” mopping-up campaigns as well as releasing toxic gas sources and biological bacteriological weapons by the Japanese invaders, common residents in our area died and received injury in massive numbers, the population dropped sharply, refugees multiplied, plus there were very serious loss of properties, relevant figures are summarized in the table below:
Summary table of death toll, casualty and property loss etc in our area 1934 to 1941
Sorted by: Jiang Wenguang
