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In the United States the Committee on the Far East of the Foreign Missions Conference received scores of letters
from those missionaries in Nanking. After weeks of consideration, they decided to release the letters in February 1938
despite the possible adverse effect on the Christian movement in Japan, which led to the eventual publication of their
letters in some magazines such as Readers’ Digest in mid-1938. Today many of the missionaries’ private diaries and letters
that elaborately depicted the scale and character of the Nanking Atrocities are collected at the Yale Divinity School
Library.
In late January 1938, the Japanese army forced all refugees in the Safety Zone to return home, and claimed to
have “restored order.” On February 18, 1938, the Nanking Safety Zone International Committee was forcibly renamed
“Nanking International Rescue Committee,” and the Safety Zone effectively ceased to function. The last refugee camps
were closed in May 1938. John Rabe and his International Committee were credited with saving 50,000 - 250,000 lives
despite the ongoing massacre.
SELECTED MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SAFETY ZONE COMMITTEE
Name Nationality Occupation Organization
Miner Searle Bates American professor University of Nanking
Miss Grace Bauer American missionary Drum Tower Hospital
Chen Francis Chinese professor Jinling Women’s University
George A. Fitch American missionary Nanking YMCA
Ernest H. Forster American missionary St. Paul Church
J.M. Hansen Danish businessman Texas Oil Co.
Christian Kröger German Carlowitz of Nanking
J. Lean American businessman Asiatic Petroleum Co.
Li Chuin-nan Chinese Red Cross Committee
Lowe, Walter Chinese Red Cross Committee
Iver Mackay British businessman Butterfi eld and Swire
John Magee American missionary American Church Mission
Rev. W. Plumer Mills American missionary American Church Mission
James McCallum American missionary Jinling University Hospital
P. H. Munro-Faure British businessman Asiatic Petroleum Co.
J.V. Pickering American businessman Standard-Vacuum Co.
John Rabe German businessman Siemens Co.
Charles Riggs American professor University of Nanking
P.R. Shields British businessman International Export Co.
G. Schultze-Pantin German businessman Shingming Trading Co.
Rev. Shen Yushu Chinese Pastor Red Cross Committee
Lewis S. C. Smythe American professor University of Nanking
Eduard Sperling German businessman Shanghai Insurance Co.
C.S. Trimmer American physician University of Nanking
Tsen Shuifang Chinese Jinling Women’s University
Mary Twinem Chinese-American Jinling Women’s University
Minnie Vautrin American missionary Jinling Women’s University
Robert O. Wilson American doctor Nanking Hospital
Names in italics left before the siege.
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