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英国记者田伯烈拍发一份电报给卫报，内中写着“我调查了日军在南京及其他地方所犯的暴行的报道”、“不少于30万的中国平民被杀戮”，此份电报被日本查没，广田弘毅将原文以密电附件发给日本驻美使馆，并在电文中说田伯烈收受了端纳的金钱[來源請求]。张纯如和吴天威都曾经将广田的电报附件说成是电报正文，由此将这份电报说成“广田在密电中承认杀死30万中国平民”。2011年出版的《南京大屠杀史料集》还在继续这种说法。[2][3][4]

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呵呵事实如此
The casualty count of 300,000 was first promul
gated in January 1938 by Harold Timperley, a journalist in China during the Japanese invasion, based on reports from contemporary eyewitnesses
https://web.archive.org/web/20131026021444/http://www.nankingatrocities.net/1990s/nineties_01.htm