At the same time, Jiang Haidong of the second group and Li Chunhui, another member of the third group, also joined the party in the park. Xu Enzo explained their respective tasks to them. He handed Zhao Liang a pistol and ordered him to take cover between 5 a.m. tomorrow morning, when the curfew was lifted, and 6 a.m., when security measures were in place during the day, when Li Chunhui dropped the bomb.

Xu Enzuo explained in the materials that he hoped that they would report to him afterwards at the Deyi Tea Room on Kaizier Road. At 8 p.m., the six men left the park.

Although they scattered to hide their weapons, the five bombardiers and the third group of Wang Zhigu gathered at their apartment at 17 Pope Road an hour later, and the six assassins decided to rent a room at the Zhongnan Hotel on Aidoya Road, where they seemed to be in a good mood, as they had been playing mahjong all night.

At half past four in the morning, they packed up their mahjong tiles and set off for their respective weapons hiding places and the destination assigned by the mission, Li Chunhui and Zhao Liang, and walked to the boundary of the public concession on Jining Road; Chen Kaiguang took a rickshaw to Sichuan Road; Wang Zhigu rented a bicycle to the floating hotel on the Bund on Beijing Road, and so on......

The bomb exploded on time. At 6 o'clock, Li Chunhui threw a grenade at a Japanese sentry on Jining Road and fled the scene with Zhao Liang. After a few moments, Wangnoya threw a grenade into the aisle of the floating hotel and escaped on his bicycle.

When he met Chen Kaiguang on Yan Kee Road, the boy panicked and threw a grenade into a small alley. As he ran towards Sichuan Road, an explosion was heard behind him. All four escaped. Chen Kaiguang changed to two rickshaws and a tram, returned to his apartment on Pope Road, and packed up his and Wang Zhigu's clothes. On Baylor Road, he met Li Chunhui, and together they walked to an apartment on Kaizier Road, where they rented a room.

The Valley of Kings joins in halfway through. Inside, Li Chunhui told them that he had seen Jiang Haidong's rickshaw stopped by French police on the road to the mansion, searched and arrested.

The exhausted people pondered for Jiang Haidong's fate for a while, and then congratulated themselves on a new place to live. Then they went to sleep, and several of them slept until noon.

During the period when the curfew was lifted and daytime security measures were imposed, the team threw a total of 18 grenades (two of which did not explode), killed two Japanese factory employees, killed two Chinese (died in the attack on the floating hotel in the Valley of Kings), and injured more than eight Chinese.

According to Hsu Enzo, they later heard that the U.S. Consul General, Roched, had reported to the Secretary of State that it was necessary to use "virtually all military and police precautions to prevent riots if they were dispatched, including armed with the Russian wing."

According to the materials of the three people, Jiang Haidong, who he didn't pay much attention to, had always been taciturn, and was actually the youngest, was actually a figure who had caused great fluctuations in Shanghai, even the whole country and the world.

On July 7, 1938, "one of the most tense days in Shanghai," several Japanese civilians were shot dead in the American Concession, where naval patrols had doubled. The Japanese military authorities demanded permission to send their own troops to support the Americans, but the commander of the American forces, Colonel Price, refused to admit them. He said he would do everything possible to protect the Japanese population.

Tight patrols in the concession continued until the night was played. Within 24 hours, the police of the Ministry of Industry arrested nearly 1,000 suspects, while the patrol house in the French Concession arrested hundreds of people. Among the latter arrests was Jiang Haidong, a 19-year-old middle school student belonging to Group 2, who was found holding a grenade in his hand on the road from the mansion.

During interrogation, Jiang "confessed to being a member of the assassination system sent to Shanghai by Hankow and possessing the necessary equipment." aimed at committing assassinations in the Public Concession and the French Concession".

Since the crimes committed by the gang took place in the Public Concession, Jiang Haisheng was extradited from the French Concession to the Investigation Unit of the Police Department of the Ministry of Industry on 10 July 1938.

Seeing this, Pu Su decided to go back and ask Lao Ren later, this kind of case should have been taken over by his department. He is a person from the Political Department of the Central Patrol Room, this kind of case is undoubtedly different from ordinary criminal cases, and those who need to be extradited in the end will definitely go through Lao Ren's side first.

Jiang Haidong, who was extradited to the Public Concession, confirmed the general belief in the Public Concession that "terror was instigated by the Kuomintang regime in Hankow." ”

The materials are written here, and there are several annotations sorted out by the administrative cadres after the interrogation. Obviously, as political work cadres, they are aware of this incident. And there are also some old newspaper clippings that have been pasted on them with paste brushes.

As a result, Fan Keling, director general of the Ministry of Industry, asked the U.S. and British ambassadors to bring the incident to the attention of the Chinese government and cooperate with the concession authorities to prevent future terrorist activities, the note reads. On 11 July, the British ambassador in Hankow was on his way to meet Chang Kaishen when he received such a letter from Shanghai. Later, the ambassador read it out to Chang Kaishen. Chang Kaishen, as the head of state, assured the ambassador that "he has no connection with these crimes......

He also promised that "he will use all his influence to prevent such incidents from happening." ”

After the 7 July bomb and killings, the heads of the intelligence services of the Japanese Consulate General, the Shina Shimbun Service, the Japanese Gendarmerie, and the Japanese military held a meeting at the Japanese Club and adopted seven decisions

First, the Consulate General set a deadline for the foreign concession authorities to arrest terrorists.

Second, the concession authorities were asked to allow the establishment of a Japanese spy organization and to allow (pseudo) Chinese agents to exercise their functions and powers, so as to facilitate the investigation of anti-Japanese elements.

Third, the Japanese authorities can exercise liberal police powers, including investigation and arrest.

Fourth, the police authorities in the two concessions were asked to suppress anti-Japanese organizations in China.

Fifth, Shanghai (puppet) police officers will be sent to the two concessions to guide the investigation.

Sixth, Japanese and (pseudo)Chinese intelligence officers should redouble their efforts.

Seventh, the death penalty was imposed on members of anti-Japanese organizations.

A similar decision, coupled with a notice requesting the police department of the Ministry of Industry to increase the number of police stations in the western part of the country and the Chinese border, was adopted by members of the special task force, which consisted mainly of retirees from the Japanese staff of the Neimian Co., Ltd. in the Xitu area of the western part of the country.

In response to this decision, the Police Department of the Ministry of Industry and the Bureau of Industry has taken three measures. The first is to organize an action team to investigate terrorist activities. On Friday morning, the day after the 7 July incident, the new group began patrolling the old gate

The goal of the new organization was to eradicate terrorist activity in the Public Concession, or at least to work in that direction. Some of the best detectives were transferred out of the patrol room to work in this new department.

The second measure is that the Ministry of Industry and the Police Department try to restrict Chinese terrorists from using the French Concession as a safe haven. The French police were asked to curb terrorist activities, but there was a theoretical response from the French Concession, which was governed by the Chinese branch of the French Concession, the District Court of the Second Special Administrative Region, and the Third Branch of the Jiangsu High Court.

These judges, who were appointed by the Nationalist government in Hankow, tended to regard these political activities as patriotic rather than terrorist, and were quite tolerant and laissez-faire. At least, according to the mouthpiece of the Ministry of Industry Bureau, the word Linxi Bao. It has to be said that the attitude of the French in this matter was far stronger than that of the British, and at least they were very sympathetic to China's situation at that time. Even the Americans were very dissatisfied with the attitude of the British side.

Therefore, the police department of the Ministry of Industry and the Bureau of Industry hoped that the French would not allow the terrorists to be tried in Chinese courts, but would be extradited to the Japanese. The extradition of terrorists to the Japanese is the third countermeasure of the Ministry of Industry and the Police Department.

In July 1938, the Bureau of Works claimed that "any person who commits a crime against the armed forces in the public concession may be extradited to the armed forces involved". On 19 July, this provision was amended to read: "Anyone in the public concession who carries weapons or explosives without the permission of the concession authorities, or who is connected with terrorist activities, will be expelled from the concession."

The U.S. consul opposed this measure on the grounds that if it did, in the absence of a public trial, the defendants would be mistreated by the Japanese and all sorts of inhumane things would happen.

However, this provision was still published.

The British used the method of prohibiting terrorists from using the public concession as a base for their activities to appease the Japanese. The Miller's Review in the concession sternly pointed out that the Bureau of Works, apparently motivated by a desire to pacify the belligerent Japanese army, took the unprecedented action of arbitrarily appointing the gendarmerie as the president of the Supreme Court.

At the same time, such a minor crime of possession of a weapon was turned into a crime punishable by death.

The next day, July 20, detectives from the Detective Unit took the young Jiang Haidong to the Waibaidu Bridge (Garden Bridge) and handed him over to the Japanese military police.

After this news was leaked, it immediately caused an uproar in public opinion. People from all walks of life at home and abroad have accused that through this premature step, the "fathers of the city" in foreign countries have actually agreed to cooperate with the invading army in order to hunt down Chinese patriots and resist the organizations that are ravaging their motherland......

Almost 100 percent of the people did not approve of the extradition of prisoners to Japanese executioners without a public trial. The extradition of Chinese youths to the Japanese army by the Ministry of Industry was probably the most emotional event for the Bolsheviks since the National Revolution of 1927.

An editorial in the Hankow Herald scathoned the Shanghai Ministry of Industry and said, "Even in extraordinary times, it is illegal to hand over the jurisdiction of criminals to the Japanese." However, on July 28, 1938, the Chinese government submitted a formal protest to the British government, arguing that the extradition of Jiang Haidong violated the agreement of the Shanghai Provisional Court. However, the Police Department of the Ministry of Industry continued to take suspected terrorists across the Waibaidu Bridge and into the hands of the military police within the borders of Japan.

Although public opinion was full of propaganda, the arrest of Jiang Haidong did not have a significant impact on the assassination activities of Xu Enzo, who had been reorganized after the July 7 bomb incident.

At that time, 17-year-old Chen Kaiguang introduced his younger brother, Chen Kaiyuan, to the organization. Zhao Liang placed the brothers in his own apartment at No. 276 Baier Road. While the veteran members of the gang with secret service backgrounds were busy assassinating Fan Qisheng on July 21, the two young Cantonese youths were preparing to attack Zheng Yuebo, a 63-year-old Chinese man who had become a Japanese subject years earlier.

On July 16, Zhao Guangyi told Xu Enzuo that Zheng Yuebo was a traitor and provided information about Zheng Yuebo's whereabouts. Zhou Shougang then gave Chen Kaiguang a written description of the target of the assassination and an investigative directive.

Three days and nights later, Chen Kaiguang was ordered to go to the park to report to Xu Enzuo. They met at the southwest corner of the park around 8 o'clock. Xu Enzuo told Chen Kaiguang that the brothers had been "selected" to assassinate Zheng Yuebo and handed him two grenades they had brought from the Asian American watch shop. Chen Kaiguang returned to his apartment on Baier Road with a grenade.

For the next two mornings, Chen Kaiguang and Chen Kaiyuan waited near the bus stations on Jixiangfeier Road and Difeng Road, but the subject did not appear. At 9:10 a.m. on July 22, Zheng Yuebo came to the street and walked to the bus station.

Chen Kaiguang waited there, while his brother stood on the other side of the street. As Zheng Yuebo passed by Chen Kaiguang, the 17-year-old took out a pistol and fired two shots into Zheng Yuebo's back.

Zheng Yuebo staggered to a wall to take cover, but fell to the ground before he could arrive. At this moment, Inspector Edgar, a policeman on horseback, came to the scene, chased Chen Kaiguang along the street, and exchanged fire, Chen Kaiguang's pistol jammed, and he threw the gun.

The police immediately jumped off his horse and arrested him, while his brother escaped the attention of the police and slipped away. The police were amazed at Chen Kaiguang's youth, ("Chen Kaiguang is a teenager of about 18 years old, and he doesn't look like a killer at all. He was tall, slightly skinny, with round shoulders. This makes interrogation a breeze.

All of this proves that Hsu Eun-jo's mixing of brave and unscrupulous people into the gang and his careless recruitment of key agents are fatal to his group.

Chen Kaiguang not only confessed everything (including the fact that Xu Enzuo was the leader of the organization), but also said the names and addresses of other team members.

So, a group of detectives immediately began a search. Let's start at 276 Baier Road. An hour after Chen Kaiguang's arrest, Wang Zhigu's lover Gu Azhen was arrested, followed by Zhao Liang and Zhou Shougang.

In the evening, the police learned of Hsu Enzo's name and address. At 11 p.m., Xu Enzo was arrested while he was waiting for his messenger.

At 11:30 a.m., the Asian American watch shop was searched, and the remaining weapons were seized. All in all, a total of 10 suspects were in custody by midnight. The search continued until the next morning, during which Wang Zhigu and Zhu Zhonghu, who had no idea, entered Sun Yaxing's room, which had been monitored and controlled by the police, and were arrested alive in the house.

Twenty-four hours after Zheng Yuebo was killed, 24 members of the assassination team were detained as suspects. Among them, 10 people who have been admitted to being accomplices in the Zheng Yuebo incident will be transferred to the Japanese gendarmerie in accordance with the recent agreement reached between the Ministry of Industry and the Japanese authorities.

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