JANUARY 10, 1938. 3 ARTICLES: The "PANAY INCIDENT." "A WEEK OF HELL" IN NANKING.

New York 1938, Time. Pictorial stiff wrappers, very good, a solid, clean full issue, 26.6 x 36 cm., 42 black & white photos, lower right corner a bit worn, else excellent copy. *IMPORTANT NANJING RAPE ISSUE* FIRST & ONLY RARE EDITION . *** **** *** . . JANUARY 10, 1038 . . AN IMPORTANT ISSUE OF THE MAGAZINE . . DOCUMENTING THREE CRITICAL FIRST REPORTED STORIES: . . . 1. JAPANESE BOMBING & SINKING OF THE USS PANAY . . AN AMERICAN GUNBOAT IN THE YANGTZE RIVER . . . 2. JAPANESE ARMY RAPE OF NANJING . . . 3. CHINESE REFUGEES PANIC EVACUATION UP THE . .YANGTZE RIVER AS THE JAPANESE MILITARY FORCE ADVANCES . . * This issue of LIFE MAGAZINE covers three critical stories out of North China> . THE AIR ATTACK BY JAPANESE ON THE USS PANAY IN THE YANGTZE RIVER: . 1. The Japanese dive-bombed and strafed the American gun boat just up river from Nanjing killing many and sinking the vessel. The true report with 37 black & white photographs of Japanese aircraft attacking, bombing & machine gun strafing the USS Panay. . The Panay took aboard the maximum passengers possible from the panic-stricken foreign population in Nanjing just as the Japanese brutally attacked the city. Then moved up river, the next afternoon the Japanese launched their attack on the well marked American ship, sinking it, killing many and wounding substantial numbers of passengers and U.S. Navy seamen. Photographed by Norman Alley, Universal Pictures. * THE JAPANESE RAPE, MURDER & TERROR IN NANJING: . 2. An important story, recording for posterity the Japanese brutal attack on Nanjing, killing thousands of Chinese on sight, men, women and children were viciously machine gunned, bayoneted and beheaded. For several days the Japanese army troops commanded by Lieutenant-Genera Iwane Matsui ["The Butcher of Nanjing] pillaged, raped and murdered indiscriminately throughout Nanjing. Supported with photographs of the Japanese brutal attack, RAPE, murder & terrorism at Nanjiing. Photographed by Associated Press photographers. . * 3. CHINESE REFUGEE MILLIONS STAMPEDE UP THE YANGTZE: NANJING CITIZENS BOARD STEAMER, HEADING TO HANGKOW.: . Citizens of Nanjing with enough money to buy a ticket up the Yangtze river 400 miles from Nanjing panic rush to board awaiting steamers. One and three-quarters large photograph taken by Associated Press photographers. . * Original photographs & articles documenting the historic events. . * Color scans are posted to our website. . * .