After Hayashi returned to his seat next to the podium, Kai Ziwei stepped up to the podium and refuted the amendment proposed by the Japanese residents as a "ridiculous proposal" and concluded: "I strongly ask you to reject this amendment."

When Schell was about to put the amendment to a vote, Hayashi also stood up and walked to the podium. Everyone watched as the 70-year-old man slowly walked up the stairs. When he reached the podium, he suddenly pulled a 32-caliber revolver from his pocket, aimed it at Kai Ziwei, and fired two shots that pierced the Englishman's thick coat and into his chest.

With the fall of Kai Ziwei, a big scuffle immediately broke out in the venue. The other three men on the stage, Kazusaku Okamoto, director of the Ministry of Industry Bureau, and Kazuchi Ikeda and Noguchi of the head office, snatched the gun from Hayashi. Chairs and cushions were tossed around in the air.

Commissioner of Police Bao Wen stood at the top of the stairs, blocking the entry of other Japanese who tried to rush up the stairs, while the police pushed Lin Xiongji and detained him; Kai Ziwei was carried into an ambulance and taken to Grace Hospital.

Kai Ziwei survived. Hayashi Yukishi, who became a hero in his comrades, surrendered to the Japanese consulate. The latter claimed that he would be sent to Nagasaki for trial. A spokesman for Japan's foreign ministry said that at the Nagasaki court, witnesses from Shanghai were "not necessarily" required. (At the time, no one knew that after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he would become the chief of the wartime intelligence service of the British "Special Operations Operations Department" in China.) ）

Although two Japanese into the attempt on February 2 burned down the grandstand of the Jockey Club. The taxpayers of Shanghai, with the exception of the Japanese residents of the United Resistance Suppression Conference, gathered three days later under the chairmanship of the recovered Kai Ziwei and approved the "proposal to increase the contribution by 40 by an additional contribution" by a vote of 7,055 to 5.

These new taxes help cover the costs of patrolling the western suburbs by the SWAT team of the Ministry of Industry. The task of patrolling the western suburbs meant that British police officers had to deal with Shanghai's notorious amusement venues on a daily basis, as well as all sorts of secret killers.

On Saturday, February 1, 1940, Mayor Chen Zhibo and Dong Kai Ziwei, General Director of the Ministry of Industry, met at the city hall in Jiangwan and signed a police agreement in the midst of the spotlight and the scramble. The agreement was formally implemented as a temporary compromise agreement a year ago.

It announced regulations for the establishment of the Western Shanghai Area Special Police Force (WASP), a force designed to take control of the western Shanghai area, which borders the two concessions, which was previously under the jurisdiction of the Western Police District and is now guarded by the Western Defense Forces in Shanghai.

The new Huxi Special Police Department is composed of the existing main police force, the entire Huxi Sub-Bureau, part of the Xujiahui Sub-Bureau, and officers from the Investigation Unit and officials recommended by the Ministry of Industry and Bureau.

According to the statute, it is the only body exercising police authority in the above-mentioned areas and acts under the command of the Municipal Police. Its maximum strength is 1,466 personnel, plus 12 reserve personnel, divided into five police stations and a number of police substations and police stations. The Huxi Special Police Headquarters consists of 7 departments: the Inspectorate Division, the Administration Division, the Special High Division, the Foreign Affairs Division, the Criminal Division, the General Affairs Division, and the Secretarial Office.

Officials of the police stations in areas with a majority of Western residents were selected by the Shanghai Municipal Government (i.e., the puppet municipal government) from a pool of 197 candidates (including Chinese) recommended by the Ministry of Industry and Bureau. No person who has been dismissed by the Ministry of Industry or the French Concession Police for misconduct is not eligible to serve as an officer.

Each police station is basically made up of a mix of people from various countries, and most of the leaders are Europeans and Japanese. Cases involving foreigners are handled by the Foreign Affairs Division of the Special Police Headquarters, although foreigners who do not enjoy treaty rights will be punished under Chinese law.

In such cases, the deputy official should seek advice from the principal officer before making a final decision. If there is a disagreement between the two, it should be resolved by officials from the Shanghai Municipal Police Department and the Police Department of the Ministry of Industry. If it still cannot be resolved, the mayor and the general director of the Ministry of Industry will make the final decision.

When it comes to matters such as intelligence, search and extradition that require cooperation with the city government and the police force of the Public Concession, a dedicated liaison officer will facilitate the matter. When the line is 'encircled', all three types of police forces can cross the border. In the case of those who have fled into the public concession after committing a crime in Huxi (or vice versa), after being apprehended, the pursuer will be taken to the nearest arrest house for registration and immediately handed over to the pursuing police.

In the course of the investigation, if the Huxi Special Police Department "reasonably suspects" that the accomplices of the criminal gang are hiding in the concession, the suspects will be extradited directly. In this case, the Huxi Special Police Department should submit evidence of the crime within one week, otherwise the accused must be returned to the police department of the Ministry of Industry and Bureau for "proper supervision".

(In particular, this article is extremely unfavorable to Pu Su, and in fact infinitely amplifies the rights of the pseudo-police.) ）

Despite the diversity of these agreements, the main obstacle to the formal formation of the new local police force is a special annex that delays the signing of the agreement in the first place. The annex stipulates that all illegal industries (such as the operation of casinos, the sale of opium and narcotics, and the supply of drugs to gentlemen) are prohibited in their jurisdiction.

The authorities of the puppet regime showed obvious reluctance and did not even want to pretend to respect this provision. As a result, the actual establishment of the Huxi Special Police Department has come to a standstill, even though the Japanese gendarmerie, Li Shiqun's "clumsy and shoddy Gestapo," and the puppet government police who support the illegal atrocities in the local area are fighting for police power.

Finally, the regulations stated that the Huxi Special Police Department would open a detention room at No. 57A Daxi Road, and sent its patrol officers to patrol the streets on March 17, 1940, wearing new police uniforms. The newly appointed chief of the Huxi Special Police Department is none other than Pan Zhijie, a police officer of the Special Patrol Unit, who has been engaged in bribing the police in the concession area.

Needless to say, gambling and drug trade continued to flourish and even intensified in the country, as the Ministry of Works' police department worked hard to get such businesses out of the Public Concession, and the trade had to be diverted elsewhere.

In February and March 1940, the Police Department of the Ministry of Industry began to ban gambling in the Public Concession. The first target is Shanghai's "slot tiger" king Jack? Jack Riley. Lalai had served 10 of the 25 years in the U.S. Oklahoma State Penitentiary for robbery, when he gained a reputation as "trustworthy" and was allowed to join the prison baseball team.

After the first race outside of prison, Lalai sent his teammates back to prison while he took a train in the opposite direction and made it to Shanghai after a months-long voyage. He used the name "becker" and used his skillful dice rolling skills to accumulate a lot of money in the small stakes gambling on the Bund, so that he was able to gamble for the real time, and thus won the Manhattan bar in the French Concession.

So he started buying slot machines. By December 1940, Lalai's slot machines were popping all over the city. Even the U.S. 4th Marine Corps Club uses the money earned from Lalai's slot machines to pay for rent and most of their expenses.

Lalai also opened his own gaming table in a nightclub and owned a stake in the casino. In a letter to the U.S. Consul General, the Bureau of Industry expressed its formal complaint against Lalai. Special Assistant to the District Attorney of the U.S. Court in China? Charles Richardson took up the case.

Richardson is a graduate of Princeton University and studied law at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley. He quickly concluded that Lalai had undoubtedly violated the anti-gambling laws in the Columbia District statute that governs Chinese Americans. As a result, Lalai was arrested.

The arrest was unpopular. Among the foreign exiles in Shanghai, Lalai was a very friendly person who simply provided slot machines to meet people's innocuous needs. However, when the police registered him, they found that his fingerprints had been partially eroded by acid. As a result, Richardson asked the U.S. court in China to grant the highest bail to date — 500,000 yuan, or $25,000.

Less than two days after his arrest, Lalai handed the bail into the hands of the court clerk. At the same time, all slot machines in the public concession disappeared.

Lale's lawyer denied his client U.S. citizenship. Because there is no passport in his name. Richardson quickly sent Lale's fingerprints taken by the Department of Justice's police department to the FBI, who found a wanted card with the name "Becker" written on it, which recorded his birthplace, his biological mother, and the doctor at birth.

No doubt about it, Jack? Lalai is an American. When Lalai confidently walked into the courthouse, he was stunned by the evidence of his American citizenship that Ricson had dramatically revealed. Just before the courtroom had a lunch break, Lalai left the courtroom and never returned, losing $25,000 in bail.

The Ministry of Industry and Police Force shifted its focus from slot machines to five or six casinos located in the public concession. It is said that gamblers here have divided their "sphere of influence" in the concession, and they are willing to cooperate on the condition that if one casino is attacked, its owner can open another casino on the territory of another casino.

On January 11, the Police Department of the Ministry of Industry and the Bureau of Industry searched the infamous Deyi Building at No. 1477 Jing'an Temple Road and arrested the owner of the "37427 Club", Antonio? Antonio Perpetuo. He was brought to trial before the Portuguese consular court, the second example of a foreigner being tried before the consular authorities of his own country.

Police want to close the other five casinos as well. "We have been fighting against them for the past ten years, and this time we finally kicked them out of the concession.

The next phase of this campaign was fought in February 1940 at Dick? Under the command of a special patrol team led by Inspector Dick Oir, the deputy chief of the department, Victor Victor? A flying team led by Victor Sharan implemented. The police have sealed down a number of "low-level casinos" in private residences, and then proceeded to mass round-ups of unorganized gamblers (for example, 25 people accused of gambling poker in their spare time at the Jiujiang Road Stock Exchange), with a focus on large casinos, such as the luxurious "Silver Palace" on Aiwenyi Road, or roulette in the Cangzhou Hotel, where Chinese and foreign gamblers were arrested and fined.

By 29 March 1940, the Police Department of the Ministry of Works could claim that the three-month campaign had been successful. "This is the first time in five years that the Police have found that there are no more public casinos for action. However, this is only the case in the public concessions, where illicit industries are thriving.

Raids by the Ministry of Industry and Police in January and February 1940 drove the gamblers out of the concession, where some gamblers had long hidden in a few English-style country houses. They have ornate gates, long driveways, and are not far from Yidingpan Road and Hagrid Road.

During the Japanese occupation, the gambling and opium business flourished in western Huxi, when a "rabble of Japanese ronins and hooligans" moved in, as well as Cantonese people who used to operate casinos in Shenzhen, near Hong Kong's New Territories, and who now followed the Japanese army to Huxi. Of course, Shanghai locals are not far behind.

The underground operators of the unscrupulous industry recognize two authorities. As far as the Japanese gangsters are concerned, they are the secret services of the Japanese army; As far as the Chinese are concerned, it is 76 Jisfeier Road.

Although Li Shiqun routinely denied the relationship between his secret police and the gambling industry, it has long been an open secret that the illicit industry has become a major and growing source of income for the regional puppet regime and the Wang Wei regime in Nanjing.

The concession authorities were well aware that the operators of the Huxi Casinos had made a great contribution to Nanjing's tax revenue, and it would be ridiculous to believe that these people had not received a letter from Nanjing before their casinos were to be seized.

Instead of showing any signs of nervousness that should have been nerves after being warned, they had a big deal of money spent on "renovations" and new casinos were opened. Therefore, one can reasonably conclude that casinos with smoke houses and other establishments are continuing to develop.

As long as the illicit industry remains, 76 Polefil Road will continue to exist, even if it is only for the purpose of sharing the spoils.

This is why Wang's puppet regime is sometimes called the "Monte Carlo government", and why Mayor Chen has found it difficult to ban the illegal profession despite his many promises to the public.

For example, at the beginning of 1940, another luxurious casino, the "Lianqiao Association", opened for business, and 23 hooligans attempted to kidnap a Chinese millionaire who was in the dye business; Other thugs abduct children from dirty schools for ransom; A little hooligan kidnapped a boy on a bicycle on Bekail Road and demanded a ransom of $13. Kidnapping is becoming more and more popular

The manager of an unofficial Chinese bank was kidnapped by the Japanese and held for ransom. This is a good way for the pseudo-government to raise funds. The Japanese are reluctant to shell out more money from their own wallets to sustain these utilitarian puppets, so much so that when their puppets shout out fraudulent bills for money or additional equipment for the war, they usually come up with an elaborate list of people who are estimated to be able to pay the ransom claimed.

The kidnappers kidnapped the vice president of the Shanghai Gold Exchange, the general manager of the Chongmei Chemical Factory, the owner of the Yitaixing Coal Mine, and a head of the Chinese Textile Mills Association. "Strange and foreign types of terrorist activity have become fashionable in the city, and in recent times there has been a spate of murders, kidnappings and bombings".

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