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Of the 300,000 Chinese slaughtered by the Japanese Imperial Army during a six-week period, most were civilians who were were bayoneted, machine-gunned and burned alive.
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Martha Ross, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
There were injuries this time, with some students bayoneted for not retreating.
—Paula Schleis, cincinnati.com, 2 May 2020
And anyway, always better to be bitten by a stingray than bayoneted.
—Erik Heinrich, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
An Army inquiry ultimately determined that 347 civilians were killed that day — shot, bayoneted or blasted with grenades.
—Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 13 May 2018
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Martha Ross, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
There were injuries this time, with some students bayoneted for not retreating.
—Paula Schleis, cincinnati.com, 2 May 2020
And anyway, always better to be bitten by a stingray than bayoneted.
—Erik Heinrich, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
An Army inquiry ultimately determined that 347 civilians were killed that day — shot, bayoneted or blasted with grenades.
—Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 13 May 2018
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“Bayonet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bayonet. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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