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その２０　第五章　第一次世界大戦と日本　第４節　惨劇―尼港事件

　１９２０年初頭にはチェコ軍救出という出兵目的も達成されつつあり、我国も満鮮の直接防衛以外は守備線を縮小し、速やかに撤兵する方針を声明したのですが、ここに思いがけない惨劇、尼港事件が発生したのでした。

　尼港（ニコライエフスク）は、樺太の対岸、黒竜江がオホーツク海にそそぐ川口に位置する町です。１９２０年初頭、ここに日本人居留民、陸軍守備隊、海軍通信隊計７百数十名が在住していましたが、連合軍が撤退するや、ロシア人、朝鮮人、中国人からなる４千名の共産パルチザンが氷雪に閉ざされたこの町を包囲襲撃、守備隊との間に偽装講和を結んで同町を支配しました。彼らは仮借ない革命裁判と処刑を開始、ロシア革命３周年記念の３月１２日、日本軍と交戦状態に入り、日本軍守備隊は大半が戦死、居留民ら１４０名が投獄されました。

　この事件を目撃し、辛くも逃れた海軍士官の手記が『大阪毎日』大正９年４月２０日号に掲載されています。

「彼ら過激派の行動は偶然の突発にあらずして、徹底的画策の下に実行された。

第1段の行動として、露国資産階級の根本的壊滅に着手し、所在資本家階級の家屋を包囲し、資産の全部を公然略奪した後、老若男女を問わず家人ことごとくをその屋内に押し込め外部より各出口を厳重に閉塞し、これに放火し、容赦なく火中に殴殺したり。

第２段の行動として、親日的知識階級に属する官公吏と私人とを問わず、容赦なく虐殺、略奪、強姦など不法の極みを尽くし、第３段行動として、獰猛なる彼らの毒牙は着々我が同胞日本人に及びたるなり。ここにこれが実例を指摘せんとするにあたり、惨劇なる暴戻ほとんど言うに忍びざるものあり、敢えてこれを書く所以のもの、すなわち犠牲者尊き亡霊が全世界上、人道正義のため公言するものなり。深くこれを諒せよ。

公然万衆の面前に於いて暴徒悪漢群がり、同胞婦人を極端に辱めて獣欲を満たし、なお飽く所を知らず指を切り、腕を放ち、足を断ち、かくて５体をバラバラに切り刻むなど言外の屈辱を与え、残酷なるなぶり殺しをなせり。

また甚だしきに至っては、馬匹２頭並べ、同胞男女の嫌いなく両足を彼此の馬鞍に固く結びつけ、馬に一鞭与うるや、両馬逸走すると同時に悲しむべし、同胞は見る見る５体八つ裂きとなり、至悲至惨の最後を遂ぐるを見て、悪魔は手を挙げ声を放ちて冷笑悪罵を浴びせ、群鬼歓呼してこれに和する…」

　惨劇の目撃記録はまだまだ続きます。読むに堪えません。結局石田副領事夫妻以下居留民３８４名、軍人３５１名、３７５名の日本人同胞が共産パルチザンによって、凌辱されたうえ、虐殺されたのでした。

　日本軍が行ったと称される”蛮行”は、針小棒大に書きたてる日本の歴史学者、歴史教科書、新聞も７百名を超える日本人が共産主義者によって惨殺されたこの世紀の虐殺事件については、なぜか口を関して語らず知らぬ風を装い、日本人の記憶と歴史の頁から罪を消し去ろうと努めている如くです。奇怪千万なことです。

　『ファー・イースタン・レビュー』誌の主筆を務めた、ブロンソン・リーは断じています。「もし日本がシベリアで単独行動を許されていたならば、共産主義のアジア征服計画は紙上のものに終わったであろう。米国のシベリア出兵はアジアを共産党の自由活動の地たらしめたのである。」と。

・その１９，第５章４節　日本語原文： http://hassin.org/01/wp-content/uploads/Road20.pdf

・　〃　　第５章４節　英訳文： http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Road20E.pdf

令和５年１０月２０日

「史実を世界に発信する会」 会長　茂木弘道

協力者代表：神奈川大学教授　小山和伸

　　＊拡散大歓迎

THE ROAD TO THE GREATER EAST ASIAN WAR

Nakamura Akira, Dokkyo University Professor Emeritus

(English Translation: Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact)

Part 20, Chapter 5: Japan and World War I-4

At the beginning of 1920 the objective of Siberian expedition, i.e., the rescue of the Czech Corps, was near fruition. At that point Japanese narrowed their operations down to the direct defense of their Manchurian and Korean interests, announcing their plan to withdraw troops in near future. But then, a totally unexpected incident arose – an event of an unspeakable nature: the Nikolayevsk Massacre.

Nikolayevsk is a town situated on the bank of Amur River opposite Sakhalin, where the river’s estuary flows into the Sea of Okhotsk. At the begging of 1920 Nikolayevsk was inhabited by approximately 750 Japanese: civilian, an Army garrison, and Navy signal corps. Ehen Allied troops withdrew, 4000 communist partisans (Russians, Koreans and Chinese) surrounded and besieged the town. The partisans entered into a truce with Japanese garrison, which turned out to be a ruse, and took control of Nikolayevsk. They then proceed to establish a revolutionary court that held trials and executed the “guilty.” On March 12, the third anniversary of Russian Revolution, fighting broke out between the communists and Japanese soldiers. The communists annihilated most of the garrison and threw some 150 civilians into prison.

A Navy officer who was in Nikolayevsk at that time and witnessed the atrocities, managed, with great difficulty, escape to Vladicvostok. He kept an account of atrocities committed by the communist partisans as he witnessed them, which appeared in the 20 April 1920 edition of Osaka Mainichi Shinbun.

  The radicals did not act on the spur of the moment. They had obviously made careful plans.

  During the first phase of their savagery, Russians were their victims. The communists surrounded the homes of wealthy Russian. After brazenly robbing them of all their assets, they held all residents – old and young, men and women – into their houses and barricaded all exits from outside. Then the communists set fire to the houses and, showing no remorse whatsoever, incinerated their inhabitants.

  The targets of second phase were pro-Japanese Russian intelligentsia. They robbed, raped, and slaughtered intellectuals, unleashing pitiless brutality against their unfortunate victims, whether government officials or private citizens. During the third phase, the monsters ruthlessly and unrelentingly bared their poisonous fangs, this time setting upon my compatriots. (omitted)

  The mob of rioters then gathered in public space, where they satisfied their loathsome lust at the expense of my female compatriots. Their depravity knew no limits, as they amused themselves by severing their victims’ limbs, slashing or chopping off fingers, arms, and legs, making certain to cause much pain as possible during their murderous rampage.

  The atrocities knew no end. The shameless attackers placed horse side by side and selected their next Japanese victim, male or female, it mattered not to them. They tied one of their quarry’s legs tightly to the saddle of one horse and the other leg to the saddle of the other. When the horses were turned loose and sped off, the victim’s body was soon torn apart ……

Unbearable to further reading, Ill stop here. Finally, Vice-Consul Ishida and his wife and 382 civilian Japanese residents and 351 Japanese soldiers were killed in Nikolayevsk.

Japan’s historians, history textbooks, newspapers are wont to exaggerate atrocities allegedly committed by Japanese troops. But for inexplicable reason, they have been silent about the worst massacre of the 20^th century, one in which more than 700 Japanese fell victims to communist.

George Bronson Rea, long time editor in chief of Shanghai-based Far Eastern Economic Review wrote:” Had Japan been permitted to act alone in Siberia, the Communist program for the domination of Asia would never have passed the paper stage. … The dispatch of an American army in Siberia made Asia safe for Communism.”

RL: https://www.sdh-fact.com/book-article/2127/

PDF: http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Road20E.pdf

 MOTEKI Hiromichi, Chairman

Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact

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Note: Japanese names are rendered surname first in accordance with Japanese custom.