Editing Nanjing Massacre (section)

=== Chinese scorched-earth policy ===
The Nanjing [[garrison]] set fire to buildings and houses in the areas close to Xiaguan to the north as well as in the environs of the eastern and southern city gates. Targets within and outside of the city walls—such as military barracks, private homes, the Ministry of Communication, forests, and entire villages—were completely burnt down, at an estimated value of US$20–30 million (1937).<ref name="doomed">{{cite web |url=http://www.geocities.com/nankingatrocities/Fall/fall_01.htm |title=Five Western Journalists in the Doomed City |access-date=April 19, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050325115933/http://www.geocities.com/nankingatrocities/Fall/fall_01.htm |archive-date=March 25, 2005}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ne.jp/asahi/unko/tamezou/nankin/1937-12-08-NewYorkTimesTillmanDurdin.html |title=Chinese Fight Foe Outside Nanking; See Seeks's Stand |access-date=April 19, 2006 |archive-date=July 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170703035524/http://www.ne.jp/asahi/unko/tamezou/nankin/1937-12-08-NewYorkTimesTillmanDurdin.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ne.jp/asahi/unko/tamezou/nankin/1937-12-09-NewYorkTimesHallettAbend.html |title=Japan Lays Gain to Massing of Foe |access-date=April 19, 2006 |archive-date=September 13, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050913064732/http://www.ne.jp/asahi/unko/tamezou/nankin/1937-12-09-NewYorkTimesHallettAbend.html |url-status=live}}</ref>