Post by MCDemuth on Jun 15, 2018 16:54:07 GMT
Did 2,988 ("3,000") Chinese soldiers belonging to a "Nanking Battalion", disappear during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) on December 10, 1939?
For the record, yes, this is just ONE article... There are other articles, and various media reporting the same mystery...
None of which can seem to verify or debunk the story!
And I believe the article misspelled "Nanjing". It should be "Nanking"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre
So, Is it just a story?
I find it difficult to believe that anyone would call a bunch of soldiers, "deserters", if it wasn't true. Back in 1939, people didn't do such things.
Also, trying to create a hoax involving 2,988 Soldiers... Should have been be quickly exposed as a hoax, even if it happened today!
So that leads us to the heart of the matter....
The answer to all this MUST documented somewhere in the country's historical files!
So why hasn't anyone, including the Chinese government, gone through the files to find out the truth?
At a minimum: The existence of "Colonel Li Fu Sien" needs to be determined!
I find it odd, that no official statement has been made by the Chinese government concerning this story.
You would think they would want to put end end to something which would damage the reputations of their citizens...
Unless it is true, that 2,988 Soldiers DID "disappear" that night...
Because, having 2,988 deserters in their Army is not something to be proud of...
And if UFOs took them all away... Well... we all know that isn't something anyone would want to discuss! Right?
In 1939, during the horrors of Japanese aggression against the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-45), almost 3,000 soldiers stationed in the rolling hills around Nanjing disappeared without leaving a single clue about their fate.
The incident began in December of 1939 (or 1937, depending who you talk to), when Colonel Li Fu Sien stationed 2,988 troops amongst Nanjing’s hills – a 3.2 kilometer area, with a view to defend a bridge on the Yangtze River against an impending Japanese attack.
When Colonel Li awoke the following morning, he was told by his assistant that the soldiers at the defensive line were not responding to calls or signals. An investigation team was formed and when they arrived at the troops' position they found it completely abandoned. There was no sign of struggle, the heavy weapons were still in place and ready to be fired, but nobody was there.
Troops stationed at the bridge claimed that no one had slipped by in the night and that they were unsure of the missing soldiers' fate.
Various theories have cropped up online to explain the disappearances, from the realistic, such as desertion and murder, to the absurd – a UFO abduction, or that the troops retreated into a hollow subterranean layer of the earth. Although the easiest explanation may be that the whole event never even happened...
A major problem with the various online renditions of the story is the inconsistencies about when the mass disappearance took place. Some writers suggest the incident happened in December of 1937, in the immediate run up to the Battle – and subsequent Rape – of Nanking (now Nanjing), while others place the event in 1939 – roughly half a year after the siege ended.
While the desertion of such a large number of troops in the run-up to the Battle of Nanking might make sense, it seems strange it has received no peer-reviewed historical mention. For one, the vanishing act is not mentioned in the Basic Facts on the Nanking Massacre and the Tokyo War Crimes Trial, which is strange – considering we're talking about the possible desertion or death of almost 3,000 people.
While a Google search of ‘Nanjing soldier disappearance 1939’ or ‘Colonel Li Fu Sien’ turns up a myriad of online conspiracy and pseudoscience blogs, essentially no reputable publications or historians seem to be chiming in with their thoughts on the myth, indicating the story may be just that – a myth. While the tale has been covered in a number of books, including World Famous Supernatural Mysteries by Sukhadev Prashad, none of them would be taken seriously as a historical expose.
Even Wikipedia’s extensive (and often spine-chilling) ‘List of people who disappeared mysteriously’ fails to mention the mass disappearance.
www.thatsmags.com/shenzhen/post/16471/tales-from-the-chinese-crypt-did-3000-chinese-soldiers-truly-disappear-in-1939
The incident began in December of 1939 (or 1937, depending who you talk to), when Colonel Li Fu Sien stationed 2,988 troops amongst Nanjing’s hills – a 3.2 kilometer area, with a view to defend a bridge on the Yangtze River against an impending Japanese attack.
When Colonel Li awoke the following morning, he was told by his assistant that the soldiers at the defensive line were not responding to calls or signals. An investigation team was formed and when they arrived at the troops' position they found it completely abandoned. There was no sign of struggle, the heavy weapons were still in place and ready to be fired, but nobody was there.
Troops stationed at the bridge claimed that no one had slipped by in the night and that they were unsure of the missing soldiers' fate.
Various theories have cropped up online to explain the disappearances, from the realistic, such as desertion and murder, to the absurd – a UFO abduction, or that the troops retreated into a hollow subterranean layer of the earth. Although the easiest explanation may be that the whole event never even happened...
A major problem with the various online renditions of the story is the inconsistencies about when the mass disappearance took place. Some writers suggest the incident happened in December of 1937, in the immediate run up to the Battle – and subsequent Rape – of Nanking (now Nanjing), while others place the event in 1939 – roughly half a year after the siege ended.
While the desertion of such a large number of troops in the run-up to the Battle of Nanking might make sense, it seems strange it has received no peer-reviewed historical mention. For one, the vanishing act is not mentioned in the Basic Facts on the Nanking Massacre and the Tokyo War Crimes Trial, which is strange – considering we're talking about the possible desertion or death of almost 3,000 people.
While a Google search of ‘Nanjing soldier disappearance 1939’ or ‘Colonel Li Fu Sien’ turns up a myriad of online conspiracy and pseudoscience blogs, essentially no reputable publications or historians seem to be chiming in with their thoughts on the myth, indicating the story may be just that – a myth. While the tale has been covered in a number of books, including World Famous Supernatural Mysteries by Sukhadev Prashad, none of them would be taken seriously as a historical expose.
Even Wikipedia’s extensive (and often spine-chilling) ‘List of people who disappeared mysteriously’ fails to mention the mass disappearance.
www.thatsmags.com/shenzhen/post/16471/tales-from-the-chinese-crypt-did-3000-chinese-soldiers-truly-disappear-in-1939
For the record, yes, this is just ONE article... There are other articles, and various media reporting the same mystery...
None of which can seem to verify or debunk the story!
And I believe the article misspelled "Nanjing". It should be "Nanking"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre
So, Is it just a story?
I find it difficult to believe that anyone would call a bunch of soldiers, "deserters", if it wasn't true. Back in 1939, people didn't do such things.
Also, trying to create a hoax involving 2,988 Soldiers... Should have been be quickly exposed as a hoax, even if it happened today!
So that leads us to the heart of the matter....
The answer to all this MUST documented somewhere in the country's historical files!
So why hasn't anyone, including the Chinese government, gone through the files to find out the truth?
At a minimum: The existence of "Colonel Li Fu Sien" needs to be determined!
I find it odd, that no official statement has been made by the Chinese government concerning this story.
You would think they would want to put end end to something which would damage the reputations of their citizens...
Unless it is true, that 2,988 Soldiers DID "disappear" that night...
Because, having 2,988 deserters in their Army is not something to be proud of...
And if UFOs took them all away... Well... we all know that isn't something anyone would want to discuss! Right?
