Archibald T. Steele of Chicago Daily News

New York Times

When the Japanese invading troops occupied Nanjing city, there were American and English and other foreign reporters stayed in Nanjing, such as F Tillman Durdin of New York Times, Archibald T. Steele of Chicago Daily News, C. Yates McDaniel of Associated Press, L. C. Smith of Reuters and cameraman Arthur Mencken of Paramount Film Company and so on. After they witnessed the atrocity by Japanese troops, they disclosed the massacre in New York Times, Chicago Daily News, Associated Press and Reuters etc. The first reporters reported about the Nanjing Massacre was Archibald T. Steele appointed in Chinese from Chicago Daily News. On December 15 1937, he was the first reporter who sent the message of Nanjing Massacre to Chicago Daily News. On December 18 1937, F Tillman Durdin of New York Times reported that Chinese war captives were all massacred, Japanese troops' atrocities were enlarged and even the common civilians also were slaughtered. The message of American embassy suffering raid shocked the world in an uproar. With that The Daily Telegraph in England and Soviet Pravda all made a series reports.

hen the foreign press disposed the Japanese troops' atrocities, domestic newspapers such as Takungpao, Central Daily News, Xinhua Daily News also made a mass of reveals and reports about the Japanese troops' atrocities in Nanjing. Just Xinhua Daily News, from January to May in 1938, reported over ten pieces of news about the Japanese troops' atrocity in Nanjing.