Only two days after the fall of Nanking, Bates lodged his first protest against Japanese atrocities with the Japanese Embassy, followed by his famous January 10,1938 letter of protest, a copy of which reached free China.
Only two days after the fall of Nanking, Bates lodged his first protest against Japanese atrocities with the Japanese Embassy. The most famous of the reports submitted by Bates was his January 10,1938 letter of protest, a copy of which reached free China.