Just a few days ago, on 28 March, the U.S. Ambassador to Chongqing received a note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the kidnapping of the Bank of China, the bombing of the Farmers Bank and the bombings of branches of the Central Bank of China.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted that the Chinese banks in Shanghai were openly ravaged by Japan and its puppet regime, and that the massacres of individuals were carried out on a large scale, with the aim of disrupting not only the financial markets in Shanghai, but also the peace and order of the entire concession area.

The note asked the Americans to send a telegram to the authorities in the Shanghai Concession, ordering them to "properly protect the Chinese banks in the Concession, but the US State Department did little to improve the situation by urging the Shanghai Bureau of Industry and Police to take tougher measures."

There is no indication as to when the 128 Bank of China employees detained at 76 Jisfil Road will be released. However, three days later, the bank's financial staff and clerks were taken back to the Bank of China at 96 Jisifeier Road and placed under house arrest as "collateral".

The puppet police, who used the Japanese military police as the backstage, told the employees of the Bank of China that they would be held hostage in exchange for good behavior by the Chongqing authorities. If one of the bank employees was killed, the police would draw lots to execute three of the 128 employees of the Bank of China who were under house arrest.

It is unclear whether these threats were known to Chongqing intelligence agents or agents of the Central Reserve Bank, but in any case, they did not prevent the military command from killing the head of the operations section of the Shanghai branch of the Central Reserve Bank on April 3.

It seems that Chen Gongshu has indeed not been idle. Afraid of being afraid, the work of Shanghai Station is passive, but it has been organizing actions.

The section chief was first injured in an attack on his home, and then killed in a bed at Dahua Hospital by a follow-up killer pistol and knife. This not only provoked a terrorist attack by the other side an hour and a half later (Nanjing agents shot and killed the accounting director of the Bank of China's Shanghai head office), but also caused an immediate reaction in the stock market.

"The market is sensitive, and the ongoing terrorist activities and the resulting reverse terrorist activities have led to the withdrawal of official banks in Chongqing from Shanghai, which have not been open to this day.

On April 16, the police authorities at No. 76 Jisfil Road invited nine senior staff members of the Bank of China hostage group to the headquarters for a long period of time.

In the end, 6 of them were ordered to be taken away. Three others — the director of the Xinzha Road Office, the head of the General Office and another — were escorted by armed police to the Bank of China. They lined up and were shot.

When the puppet police left, they left behind three bodies, and all 77 families living there were then relocated. Since then, this coveted residential area has been occupied by employees of the Pseudo Central Reserve Bank.

It is widely believed in Shanghainese that the real motive for killing the three bank clerks was not only revenge, but also to force the French and Public Concessions to accept the worthless Central Reserve Bank currency. But that didn't work out, as China's currency depreciated sharply and banks in Chongqing remained open until they were better protected by the police.

The battle for the banks continues. Just over a week earlier, Li Dingmo, chief of the audit section of the Shanghai branch of the Central Reserve Bank, was shot in the back and died on the ladder of the Zhongnan Hotel on Aidoya Road. Two days later, six terrorists blew up the Lianyi Commercial Reserve Bank on Tianjin Road.

While the four banks in Chongqing have plans to reopen, many in the local foreign and Chinese communities are convinced that Shanghai will not be able to maintain its status quo unless the violence encouraged by Chongqing and Nanjing stops.

In a powerful editorial, the English edition of the Great American Evening News called on Chongqing to "publicly declare that it does not use open violence" and to give clear and unmistakable orders to agents and supporters lurking in Shanghai to stop guerrilla warfare in the city.

At this time, the bank controlled by Wang Puppet was going to hold a grand reception, and No. 76 was constantly inviting people, and the meaning behind it was self-evident.

As for financial warfare, although Pu Su is not familiar with the specific operations inside, he is also well aware of its strategic position. Without money, everything is in vain. The reason why the border regions are so embarrassed and passive is precisely because they do not have the slightest say in this regard.

As a substitute for the Chongqing government, Wang Puppet is of course unwilling to accept that the currency power is still in his hands. In the battle in this realm, it can only end with bloodshed. Moreover, neither side cares how much blood is shed for this.

The above materials and newspaper reports have reported and analyzed several actions of a newcomer like him in Shanghai. He looked at it, and most of them attributed him to the Chongqing government, with only a few imaginative speculations, which regarded him as a gangster of unknown origin, or No. 76 who wanted to stir up troubled waters......

Although the political forces and chaos of all parties in Shanghai over the past few years are complicated, they are still in the pipe. Pu Su also has a more comprehensive understanding.

In particular, the confidence of the two concessions has obviously insufficient. Under the pressure of the powerful Japanese military, he showed a compromise posture that was far beyond his previous imagination. Even, in the face of these old powers, the Japanese military has occupied a full right to speak.

At this time, Japan basically abandoned the civilian diplomacy and was completely a quasi-military government. In the military-led talks, they were invariably very strong, tough, and reckless.

Therefore, Pu Su thinks that all the preparations that seem to be excessive are actually necessary. Probably, it won't be long before they lose the buffer zone of the French Concession and will have to face Japan directly.

Judging from the available information, the public concession seems to have no bottom line and the dignity of an old power than the French concession. As a matter of fact, Pu Su knew that because the Public Concession was adjacent to the Japanese Defense Zone and the Chinese Territory, and because it was an international area of Shanghai, it undertook the vast majority of the unreasonable demands and accusations from Japan.

In fact, the French Concession has a buffer because of the public concession. And it's not an international area, it's controlled and managed only by the French government, so it's a lot less stressful. As the European battlefield deepened, the French government, which had declared war on Germany, was by no means having a good time.

The relentless violence, originating in the dirt or perpetrated by Daly's Blue Coat Society, has created an atmosphere of boredom that has gripped the city. There were many terrorist activities that were undoubtedly patriotic and clearly directed against the Japanese occupation forces.

In early March, it began in Nanjing (in which the special forces also participated, Yu Dabao, Tong Chuan, and Chenghua and their squads), and then in Shanghai later that year, Kuomintang agents bombed hotels and theaters frequented by Japanese soldiers. On March 26, two of the largest theaters in the "Little Tokyo" area of Hongkou detonated time bombs, injuring 16 Japanese people.

Even so, the terrorist activities of March and April 1940 still felt irresponsible. During the week of March 22-29, 14 Shanghainese were killed, 60 wounded and 128 abducted. Within a week, four bank employees were assassinated.

When the Japanese military police tried to take over the taxpaying Chinese associations, the police opened fire on them, killing the bodyguard of the Shanghai police chief by mistake, and the rioters also dropped bombs on the home of the judge of the Jiangsu High Court......

The haphazard nature of terrorist activity, and the atmosphere of weariness, led to a certain desire for order, or at least the better-off Shanghai residents, including foreigners, who were willing to accept a new political arrangement. According to the latest reports, after a tie between the Japanese gendarmerie and the Ministry of Industry Bureau Police on the issue of the Chinese Taxpayers' Association, the two sides began to devise a new plan to replace the Ministry of Industry with a larger "interim parliament" appointed by the government rather than elected by taxpayers.

This was a big change in the management of the concession. The United Kingdom and China were represented, while the United States and Japan were represented, and Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Germany were each increased by one for diplomatic reasons.

The senior officers of the Police Department of the Ministry of Industry are still British, but the Police, Finance and Public Works Divisions have been reorganized according to the Japanese vision.

The new interim parliament has had little impact on terrorist activities in Chongqing, and the situation has only gotten worse. At the same time that Pu Su took over the people and engaged in infrastructure construction, there were three sensational assassinations in the outside world, two of which were of police officers, and one of which was of a famous French lawyer and writer.

The first victim was Yin Zhanqing, a senior Chinese detective from the Huxi Special Police General Office. Yin Tanmu, a 43-year-old native of Nantong, worked in the police department of the Ministry of Industry for 16 years, but resigned on December 1, 1939, and joined the "peace movement" led by Wang Jingwei. Because of the favor of his colleagues in the Ministry of Industry Bureau, he was able to secure a position in the newly established Huxi Special Police Department.

On the 27th, as soon as Yin Zhanqing stepped out of the car parked on Wenzhou Road in the public concession and in front of his door, two gunmen wearing student clothes opened fire on him. He hurriedly fled to Baolong Hospital, but in the end he lost consciousness and died.

Baron R d'Auxion de Ruffe was a large, well-built man, the oldest French lawyer living in Shanghai. He came from an aristocratic family in southwestern France. In 1910, he came to Shanghai and practiced law.

Until the outbreak of the First World War, he joined the French team, established a distinguished military exploit, and was awarded the Crusader and the Military Merit Medal. He then returned to Shanghai in 1918 and resumed his legal career. Baron Dashang was also a scholar, collecting Chinese antiques, writing the book "The Far East" and writing a number of articles for a leading French daily newspaper. Many of these articles are quite critical of the Chongqing regime.

The 66-year-old baron, who was also president of the French General Association and the French Friendship Association, was close to the late mayor Fu Xiao'an, and was appointed as an "honorary advisor" to the puppet city government. Although there is speculation that he was involved in a dispute between the Vichy government and the Gaullists, as well as a personal vendetta in connection with an important lawsuit, it is likely that it was the friendship between Baron Dashang and Mayor Fu that caused him to suffer this injury.

At nearly 9 o'clock in the morning of the 13th, Baron Dashang left his home at 56 Marss South Road and drove to the office of the St. Anne Apartment, located at 25-41 Avenida de la Mansion.

The building is opposite the Consulate General of France and quite close to the Bund. When he walked into the building, he was followed by two Chinese in Western clothes. The baron's office was on the third floor, and he was about to ascend to the second floor when two gunmen fired three shots in the back with a 38-caliber pistol.

Dashang fell down the stairs and rolled down until his feet caught in the stair railing. The Assassins stormed the Mansion and fled along Rawell Road towards Southcity. The Baron was immediately taken by ambulance to the Guangci Hospital, but he was dead by the time he arrived. Left behind a widowed wife, Celina? How many heroes? Delufe

The third victim was the deputy director of the police department of the Ministry of Industry, Akagi kinyuki. He has done a great deal of work in coordinating the activities of the Police Service of the Ministry of Industry for the benefit of the Japanese Consulate, the Police and the Gendarmerie.

On the 17th, four days after the murder of Baron Dashang, Akagi left his home on Yuyuan Road, took his wife, and drove to the hospital for routine treatment. As the car turned into Difeng Road, two gunmen opened fire on him. Akagi was shot in the head, but he still tried to climb the car to fight back, only to be hit in the arm and back.

The Assassins fled. Akagi reluctantly returned to the car and asked the driver to take him to Hong'en Hospital. Although three Japanese gave him blood transfusions, he eventually died on the operating table in the hospital. His wife, on the other hand, was fortunate not to be injured.

On the 24th, the first seven days, a grand funeral was held for Director Akagi. The funeral procession starts at the Roadhorse Association near the intersection of Jing'an Temple Road and Nanjing Road and continues to Wenjian Shi Road, where the hearse is parked in the Japanese club for Buddhist services. The sidewalks on both sides of the route are crowded with thousands of spectators.

These three assassinations were undoubtedly the work of pro-Chongqing terrorists or agents of the Blue Coat Society.

However, the motives and reasons for many cases are not clear. In some cases, such as the bombing of the Central Reserve Bank, it was widely suspected that the terrorist case was deliberately provoked by saboteurs.

In other cases, the agents' motives, even for their superiors, were dubious. As Ye Wenxin revealed in the case of Zhao Guangyi. Part of the problem was that the Kuomintang intelligence agencies adopted a policy of "saving the country by curves," that is, working through and using the enemy's intelligence agencies.

Daley has taken the middle- and lower-level spies who have infiltrated Wang's puppet secret service organization into the thousands, and the purpose of this is to engage in the so-called "curve to save the country."

(According to relevant information, before the Southern Anhui Incident in January 1941, Chang Kaishen had ordered Dali to secretly cooperate with Wang Wei's secret service to the New Fourth Army.) The same order was issued to Chen Lifu and Xu Enzeng (the head of the Central Union), who established a special channel of communication with Ding Mocun, a former agent of the Central Union and one of the leaders of the secret headquarters of the present-day Nanjing regime. The radio code received by the Zhongtong Cryptography Office in Chongqing was presented directly to Xu Enzeng, who personally declassified it and stored it in a special file bag numbered 0042L42, which is 7 times 6, or "76"), which was placed in a green safe in his office. ）

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