=====①c-1.日記的、21日(第34段落)=====
以下の12月21日の記述について考える。
/は話の区切りになる。
[ ]は①では切れている箇所で、③=④で補ったもの。
太字はフィッチかもしれないと思うもの。
Fourteen of us called on Tanaka at 2130 and presented a letter signed by all 22 foreigners protesting the burning of the city and continued disorders. More promises!/ Rabe fears for his house, for buildings are burning across the street from him. He has over 400 refugees living in matsheds inhis garden./ The problem of feeding is becoming Serious - some refugees, hungry, started rioting in the University./ Our coal will soon be finished, but Riggs is scouting for more. The Japanese have sealed all supplies of coal and rice./ Soldiers came into our place today, voer[over] the wall, and tried to take our cars while we are all out, and at another time [they nearly got Soon's truck from him./ Rabe had a letter today from Dr.] Rosen, of the German Embassy, through Mr. Tanaka, saying he was on the H.M.S. "Dee"[Bee] at Hsiakwan but not allowed to land and asking about German properties. Rabe replied that he was glad to inform him that two houses were not looted, the Ambassador's and his own, and that two cars were still left! (There are over fifty German resistances in Nanking.)
一・二行目
Fourteen of us called on Tanaka at 2130 and presented a letter signed by all 22 foreigners protesting the burning of the city and continued disorders. More promises!
一行目はベイツだと思う。二行目はフィッチなのかもしれないし、フィッチのようにベイツが書いているのかもしれない。More promisesという表現はベイツ的な感じがする。
三・四行目
Rabe fears for his house, for buildings are burning across the street from him. He has over 400 refugees living in matsheds inhis garden.
これはどちらなのかわからない。
五行目
The problem of feeding is becoming Serious - some refugees, hungry, started rioting in the University.
これはどちらかと言うとベイツだと思う。
六・七行目
Our coal will soon be finished, but Riggs is scouting for more. The Japanese have sealed all supplies of coal and rice.
六行目はフィッチな感じがしなくもないがわからない。七行目はベイツだと思う。
八行目
Soldiers came into our place today, voer[over] the wall, and tried to take our cars while we are all out, and at another time [they nearly got Soon's truck from him.
これはベイツだと思う。
九・十・十一行目
Rabe had a letter today from Dr.] Rosen, of the German Embassy, through Mr. Tanaka, saying he was on the H.M.S. "Dee"[Bee] at Hsiakwan but not allowed to land and asking about German properties. Rabe replied that he was glad to inform him that two houses were not looted, the Ambassador's and his own, and that two cars were still left! (There are over fifty German resistances in Nanking.)
九行目はフィッチだと思う。
, of the German Embassy,と両側に,のあるところなどは、どちらかというとベイツ的な感じがするし、"Dee"という誤字も、単なる打ち間違いということもあると思うが、どういうものなのかと思う。
Embassyと大文字で書かれている行は、ベイツと思うものも複数あり、判断できないが、いくらかはフィッチなのかもしれないと思わないこともないと思う。
この行は、Mr. Tanakaと書かれているが、この段落の一行目にはFourteen of us called on Tanaka ... と書かれている。
ここからは、一行目と九行目は別の人が書いているかもしれないと考えられ得ると思う。
また、27日の2の段落は全てフィッチが書いていると思うが、そこでも手紙についての記述があるが、この行と似ていなくもないと思う。
[...] that was the arrival by the N..... boat, through the Japanese Embassy, of a letter from Dr. Gong[Fong] Soo [...].
a letter from ... through ... という書き方が同じであると思う。
書き方が同じであるとか、同じような書き方をしているとしても、一方はベイツ、もう一方はフィッチであると思うような記述もある。
そして十行目もフィッチだと思う。九行目がフィッチならなおさらそうだと思う。
十一行目はわからないが、ベイツが加えたのかもしれない。