Chapter 329: The beginning and end of the Jindu Bloody Case
At this time, Xiao Ju was holding a copy of the "Literary and Historical Monthly", which contained an article written by an author named Ah Qiang about the Jindu Bloody Incident that occurred in Shanghai on July 28, and the title was "The Shanghai Police and the Military Police Fight". As for the beginning of the incident, Xiao Ju couldn't help but sigh at the incompetence of the national government, no wonder it would collapse soon.
Because Xiaoju also wanted her mother to know about the recent situation in Shanghai, she asked Zhuang Zhuang to put down the newspaper he was reading, sat down next to Xiaoju Niang, and read this article "Shanghai Police and Military Police Fight" for her. With Xiao Ju's elegant voice, what happened in Shanghai on July 27 was unfolded in front of Xiao Ju Niang and Zhuang Zhuang.
On the evening of July 27, the Jindu Theater, located at the junction of Foch Road and Tongfu Road in Shanghai, was screening the latest famous costume and glamour blockbuster "Dragon and Phoenix Flower Candle" produced by Cathay Pacific Film Company. Liu Junfu, head of the Public Works Management Office of District 4 of the Shanghai Municipal Public Works Bureau, also went to watch the movie with his friends and his wife, but the three of them only had two tickets, and they planned to make up another one when they entered. Unexpectedly, the inspection was not accommodating, and the two sides had a quarrel. Li Yutai, lieutenant platoon commander of the 8th Company of the 23rd Military Police Regiment stationed in Shanghai, who was patrolling at night, stepped forward to intervene when he heard the sound and drove Liu Junfu and others away, causing everyone to watch.
At this time, Lu Yunheng, a police officer of the new branch of the Municipal Police Department, also passed by here because of his duty and stepped forward to help Liu Junfu and others. As a military policeman, Li Yutai put the police in his eyes, and was extremely annoyed by Lu Yunheng, who was inserted into the bar, and slapped the other party fiercely when he said a few wrong words. Not to be outdone, Lu Yunheng raised his foot and kicked Li Yutai back. The two sides fought.
In an instant, Lu Yunheng, who was fighting alone, was smashed to the ground by Li Yutai and his two gendarmes with the butts of their guns. passed out, and then was dragged to the second floor of the theater and locked in a small dark room.
Coincidentally, the scene where Lu Yunheng was beaten happened to be bumped into by his immediate boss, Zheng Kuan, the sergeant on duty, when he passed by the gate of the theater. But Zheng Kuan didn't dare to step forward because he saw that the other party was overwhelmed.
In the early morning of July 28, shortly after the gunfire in front of the Jindu Theater had just stopped, Shao Jian, secretary of the underground committee of the Shanghai police system, rushed to Zhang Chengzong, the person in charge of the underground municipal party committee, to report to him the bloody case that had just occurred, and put forward the idea of organizing a police strike.
Zhang Chengzong greatly appreciated Shao Jian's alertness and sensitivity in seizing the opportunity to wage a struggle against the reactionary Kuomintang authorities. Zhang Chengzong analyzed. In front of the common people, the police are tigers; In front of the gendarmerie, the police turned into kittens again. We must take advantage of the contradictions between them to mobilize the "weak" and strike at the arrogance of the gendarmerie. At the same time, he also exhorted Shao Jian to adopt a legal form of struggle, grasp the sense of proportion, and not mention excessive slogans. Don't stand out too much in everything, lest you expose yourself, after all, the police are also the instruments of the dictatorship of the reactionaries.
After bidding farewell to Zhang Chengzong, Shao Jian urgently convened a group of members of the underground police committee. Convey the instructions of the municipal party committee to everyone and discuss action measures. In the middle of the meeting, news came from the Huangpu branch that police officers who had left the morning had gathered to protest against the brutality of the gendarmes and refused to take up their posts. After hearing the news, the underground police committee hurriedly drew up a propaganda slogan, and immediately ended the meeting, and all the personnel went to each sub-bureau to carry out the propaganda and agitation work calling on the city's traffic patrol police to strike their posts.
The news of the murder of the policemen by the gendarmes quickly spread to all the police stations in Shanghai, and the various agitative slogans drawn up by the underground police committee also gave wings:
Die for the authorities, life is not guaranteed!
Punish the murderer and return my brother's soul!
There are more than 20,000 policemen in Shanghai, and I am afraid that he will not succeed in 1,000 gendarmes!
Strike! Strike!
By about 10 o'clock in the morning, the traffic police and patrol police of the Huangpu, Laozha, Xincheng, Songshan, and Luwan sub-bureaus in the city center had all responded to the call and spontaneously participated in the strike. This situation lasted for three consecutive days, becoming the first police strike in Shanghai since the opening of the port.
At the same time, the Jindu Bloody Aftermath Committee was announced on July 29, of which 18 were underground party members, which influenced the decision of the committee. Although Zhang Chengzu, a special agent of the military command and chief of the criminal police section of the Municipal Police Bureau, was also mixed in, he could not play a role at all.
As soon as the Charity Committee was established, it immediately edited and published the "Shenxue Daily". On July 30, Shenxue Bao was launched, with the following words: "Unity is strength" and "justice will surely triumph over power", and the truth of the bloody case was also announced in the inaugural issue.
However, on the second day of its publication, the newspaper was forcibly banned by the Songhu Garrison Command, claiming that violators would be punished according to the rules and regulations. In order to avoid head-on clashes, the Underground Police Committee decided to reissue the Shinxue Newspaper into a "Briefing" to report on the aftermath of the deceased brothers. On 31 July, the Bulletin was launched, and its circulation surged from 500 to 5,000, causing a great impact not only within the police department, but also in society.
[On August 2, a public memorial service for the victims of the Jindu Massacre was held under the noses of the authorities. At 9 o'clock in the morning, more than 460 police officers from all walks of life, divided into 11 large trucks and 4 cars, set off from the Yulin Road Police Training Center and drove to the Central Funeral Home.
When passing through the headquarters of the 23rd Regiment of the Military Police, 15 cars lined up and circled for three weeks, and more than 460 voices roared in unison: "Murder pays for life!" "The blood of the dead, the strength of the living. Unity is strength! Then take the near and far, detour to Nanjing Road, where trucks are prohibited, and the citizens along the road will compete to see. Its momentum and spirit are no less than the prestige of the tour. The parade was expressly forbidden by the Kuomintang's regulations on rebellion.
The Shanghai underground party's strategy of using legal forms to carry out the struggle against the enemy was fully brought into play in the public memorial activities.
According to an investigation released by the Shanghai Municipal Police Department on July 31, a total of 11 people were killed and 7 injured in the Jindu bloodbath. Among them, 7 police officers were killed and 4 were injured; 4 citizens were killed and 2 injured; Only one member of the gendarmes was slightly injured. Guo Fumin, an innocent citizen who was transporting watermelons and vegetables through the Jindu Theater that night, was also shot and died.
The occurrence of the Jindu bloody case also caused a great shock to the central leadership of the Nationalist Government, and Wang Zhe, commissioner of the Police General Administration of the Ministry of the Interior, and Li Chengren, a major general of the Military Police Headquarters, were successively dispatched to Shanghai for mediation. At present, the incident is under investigation, and the main persons involved in the incident have been arrested and detained, and the whole of Shanghai is continuing to pay attention to the further investigation and handling of this matter. Hopefully, the authorities will give a reasonable explanation to those who died in vain. It will also allow the people of Shanghai to regain confidence in whether the Nationalist Government can take on the role of protecting Shanghai's political and economic and social order.
Xiao Ju finished reading this article and paused for a while. Zhuang Zhuang looked at Xiao Ju with a puzzled expression, not understanding why Xiao Ju asked him and his mother to listen to this. Although Xiao Ju Niang has not read many books, her life experience and life experience are rich after all, not to mention that following Xiao Ju in the past few years can be regarded as running from east to west, which has broadened her horizons.
"Xiaoju, I didn't expect Shanghai to be so messy! There was a war in Shandong, but when I arrived in Shanghai, it was the police and the gendarmes fighting! We little people can't live anywhere! Xiaoju, the police and gendarmes should all be under the jurisdiction of the national government, right? How did they fight with themselves? Xiao Ju Niang asked a little irritated but a little puzzled. She thought that when she got to Shanghai to meet Rosen's cousin, she would be able to live a peaceful life, and then Zhuang Zhuang would go to school, while she would find a job, as for Xiaoju, she would do whatever she liked! A family of three lives in harmony with the United States.
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