Only ten days after the fall of Nanking, local autonomous committee was established in capital city Nanking of the anti-Japanese movement on December 23, and Tao Hsi-shan, the chairman of the Red Swastika Society of Nanking, was recommended as the chairman of the committee.  The committee is highly aimed for anticommunist and pro-Japan, and is going to cooperate with the new government of Peking.  The chairman Tao won public confidence as a mild-mannered man of integrity.  As the chairman of the committee of Nanking refugees, he definitely refused the deportation order of the Nanking government prior to the Battle of Nanking, and stayed in Nanking Castle throughout the battle.  He engaged earnestly in the safety and relief for the citizens.  The photo shows the chairman Tao at an interview with press corps.(December 23, 1937)
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2008-12-19
"ASAHI GRAPH," Japanese photograph magazine (Asahi Shimbun, published on Jan. 19, 1938)