On November 20, 1948 (**37), the seventh issue of the first volume of the weekly magazine "Vientiane" published the "news insider" "The Death of Chen Bui" written by Sima Hu, which was one of the most profound articles in the many articles describing this matter at that time.
Vientiane Weekly, published in Shanghai in June 1943, published until 1945, a total of 115 issues;In 1948, a new volume and one issue were published, and the publication was discontinued in November of the same year, with a total of five issues. Editor-in-chief Liu Ziqin, published by Vientiane Weekly, edited by Huang Shu from the first issue of the new 1 volume. The main columns include analysis of the war situation, international talks, war communications, family and women, etc.
On November 20, 1948 (**37), the seventh issue of the first volume of the weekly magazine "Vientiane" published the "News Insider" "The Death of Chen Bui" written by Sima Hu, which reads:
He died on the night of November 12, but was discovered by his family at 10 a.m. on November 13.
On the 11th, in the afternoon, Mr. Bray returned from a haircut on Shanxi Road, and his spirit seemed particularly tired, but on the second day, he still took a car to the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum as usual to attend the ceremony to commemorate the Prime Minister's birthday. The 13th was a Monday, and the regular meeting of the Kuomintang Central Committee was originally scheduled to be held on this day, but the meeting was suspended due to the insufficient number of members present, and it was temporarily changed to a talk meeting. At this time, Propaganda Minister Huang Shaogu was counting the number of people present, and was wondering "why didn't Bray come", and suddenly the ** in Chen's Mansion came, which made the ** person couldn't believe that "Bray is dead".
Mr. Bray had a temper, and when he was working, he did not want his family to enter his room, so he would never dare to be pushed in when the door was closed.
At nine o'clock in the morning, the door of his room had not yet been opened, and no one suspected what had happened inside. By ten o'clock, there was no movement, which caused panic among the family. The door is locked, and no matter how much you push it open, you can't push it open. I had to open the air window on the door, climb in, look left and right, there was a suicide note left on the pillow, and immediately ask a doctor for consultation, my heart has stopped for three hours.
On the afternoon of 15 July, when Mr. Bray's body was buried, many dignitaries wept, and they deeply felt that Mr. Bray's death at this time was a great loss.
Chen Bui, a native of Cixi, Zhejiang, is known as Xun'en, the word Yanji, and the number Bulei.
In the 2005 edition of The Complete Book of Centennial Figures of the Chinese Kuomintang, published by the Unity Publishing House, it was recorded that "Chen Bui (1890-1948). Formerly known as Xun'en, the word Yanand, the number of mines, fear, Zhejiang Cixi. Born on December 26, 1890 (the fifteenth day of the winter month of the sixteenth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty). He studied in a private school as a child, and later graduated from Cixi County Middle School and Ningbo Fu Middle School, and was admitted to Zhejiang Higher School in 1906. After graduating in 1911, he went to Shanghai to work as a reporter for the Tianduo Daily. Soon after, he returned to Ningbo Middle School to teach. In May 1912, he joined the China League. In 1920, he went to Shanghai to participate in the compilation of the Webster Dictionary. In 1921, he served as the editorial director of the Shanghai Business Daily. In February 1927, he was introduced by Chiang Kai-shek and Chen Guofu to join the Chinese Kuomintang. In April of the same year, he was appointed as the secretary general of Zhejiang Province, and in May, he was appointed as the secretary general of the Chinese National Party Department. In the autumn of the same year, Jiang Xiaye and Chen resigned at the same time and served as the chief writer of Shanghai's "Current Affairs News". After Chiang came to power, he returned to Nanjing to take up his post. In 1928, he was elected as an alternate member of the ** Political Conference. In March 1929, he was elected as an alternate member of the third ** Supervisory Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, and on July 1, he was appointed as a member of the ** Committee of Zhejiang Province and director of the Department of Education. On December 15, 1930, he was appointed as the executive secretary of the Ministry of National Education and a member of the China Merchants Committee. On June 27, 1931, he was appointed as the political secretary of the Ministry of Education, and on December 15 of the same year, he was appointed as the director of the ** Education Department of Zhejiang Province. At the end of the year, he was elected as an alternate member of the fourth ** Supervisory Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang and concurrently served as the head of the Propaganda Department. The following year, he was appointed Chief of the Secretariat of the Third Department of the Military Commission, but did not arrive. In April 1934, he resigned as director of the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education and became the chairman of the Camp Design Committee, a position he held until his death. In 1935, he served as the director of the second division of Chiang Kai-shek's chamberlain, the deputy secretary-general of the ** Political Conference, and the vice chairman of the ** Propaganda Committee, and was elected as a member of the fifth ** executive committee of the Chinese Kuomintang in the same year. In 1937, he was appointed as a member of the ** Political Conference. In 1938, he served as the ** temporary officer, meeting officer and executive secretary of the Three People's Youth League. In 1939, the Supreme Council of National Defence was renamed the Supreme Council of National Defence, and then served as Deputy Secretary-General. In 1945, he was elected as a member of the Sixth ** Executive Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he served as the secretary-general of the National Political Committee of China. In January 1946, he attended the Chinese Political Consultative Conference and was elected as a deputy to the Constituent National Assembly in November. In March 1948, he was elected as a delegate to the first 'National Convention'. Later, he served as the national policy adviser of the ** government, and committed suicide by taking sleeping pills in Shanghai on November 13. Since 1927, he has followed Chiang Kai-shek for a long time, drafted documents for Chiang, and participated in the major decisions of the Kuomintang and the Kuomintang. He is the author of "Memoirs of Chen Bui" and "Xi'an Half Moon". ”
On November 14, 1948, the second edition of the "*" published a message with a big-character headline, "Chen Bui died of a heart attack yesterday, ** and his wife went to mourn Ming's funeral", and said that "Chen Bui died suddenly with a heart attack at 8 am yesterday (13). "After talking to a friend last night, Chan was still working on the manuscript, everything was as usual, and it was very late to go to bed. This morning, because Chen got up late, the entourage went into the room to look at the strange, and urgently delayed the medical diagnosis and treatment, and found that his pulse had stopped, and the cardiac injection was ineffective. He was 59 years old. ”
On the afternoon of November 13, 1948, Chen Bui's body was moved to the China Funeral Home in Xinjiekou, Nanjing.
On November 15, 1948, a condolence ceremony was held for Chen Bui's body. Chiang Kai-shek and his wife went to mourn in person, and personally wrote a "contemporary perfect man" to hold a banner. On the morning of November 18th, the Kuomintang Nanjing ** held a public memorial ceremony, sacrificing the text Zhongyun, "afraid of the rafter pen, more than one million divisions", "Summing up his life, the strength of the road, the loyalty of seeking the country, the respect of the body, and the incorruptibility of the wealth, it is enough to be a model for people".
At 12 o'clock on November 18, 1948, the coffin car departed from the Xinjiekou China Funeral Home and headed for the Hepingmen Railway Station. After the convoy arrived at the Hepingmen Railway Station, the coffin was moved to the special train and slowly drove out of the ...... of the Hepingmen Railway Station in Nanjing
On November 24, 1948, Xinhua News Agency, northern Shaanxi, "Chiang Kai-shek's loyal lackey Chen Bui committed suicide by taking sleeping pills in Nanjing on the 13th of this month, which is another symbol of the complete despair and imminent demise of the Kuomintang reactionaries. Chen Bui is a member of the National Committee and the secretary general of the Political Committee, the highest decision-making organ of the Kuomintang, and one of Chiang Kai-shek's most trusted minions. It is reported that Chen Bui, who was extremely pessimistic about the future of the Kuomintang, committed suicide because he was scolded by Chiang Kai-shek. This is a typical vision of the end of all reactionaries. ”
On December 10, 1948, Chen Bui was buried in Hangzhou. **Shehangzhou, 10th," Therefore, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Chen Bui, buried in Hangzhou Nanshan Xu Village on the 10th, today haze, drizzle, eight o'clock in the morning, Chen's family personally supported the coffin, from the Siming Mansion, at 8:20 arrived at the Jiaobai Road City Education Bureau that is set up in the place to lay a public sacrifice, nine o'clock by the province and city from all walks of life to hold a public sacrifice, the sacrifice, the resumption of the spirit to the Jiuxi eighteen streams Xu Village cemetery, the mourners are with the funeral team, ten o'clock arrived at the Xu Village cemetery, ten o'clock into the soil, immediately held a farewell ceremony, by the provincial chairman Chen Yi, on behalf of the funeral committee to officiate, eleven o'clock ceremony, cemetery tomb building, follow the will, extremely simple, frugal, and ordinary civilian tombs are no different, this generation of perfect people, since then sleep on the shore of Xizi Lake......”
In the article "Chen Bui's Suicide" in the 223rd issue of United Pictorial, it was stated that "Mr. Chen Bui committed suicide by taking sleeping pills three times in the spring and summer of the first year, the second year, and the fourth time. Over the years, this gentleman often uses sleeping pills to invigorate the spirit and calm the nerves, three or five or even more than ten tablets a day is not surprising, and this time he went to Shanghai with his family, I am afraid that it is difficult to take less and it will be effective, and one service reaches more than 200 tablets ......”
The Herald published an article "Chen Bui's Proverbs", saying, "...His suicide was thought of for a long time. Ten years ago, in May of the twenty-seventh year, when the Japanese invaded Zhoujiakou and Wuhan was shaken, he would say to his friends: 'Guan Zhongzhi's Book Cloud: If the society is broken, the temple is destroyed, and the sacrifice is extinguished, then I will die. If the unfortunate result is the death of the country, that is to say, if our country dies because of lack of salvation, then I am convinced that there are people who will commit suicide in the face of hardship. Personally, I think it should be!But this became a proverb. ”
In the article "Why Chen Bui Committed Suicide" in Volume 2, Issue 2 of News Magazine, it was stated that "...For thousands of years, there are only three people who can be roughly comparable with Mr. Chen's deeds, one is Fan Zeng, one is Qu Yuan, and the other is Jia Yi. ”
On November 13, 1948, Chen Bui committed suicide by taking sleeping pills in the "Chen Mansion on Hunan Road".
This "Hunan Road Chen Mansion" was the "No. 508 Hunan Road" at that time, which is now "No. 15 Jiangsu Road", and the name of this section of the road was "Hunan Road" during the * period.
No. 15 Jiangsu Road, the former Chen Bui residence. The building covers an area of 72780 square meters, built with brick walls and tile roofs, 1 Western-style building, 22 rooms on 2 floors, and 2 into 6 bungalows. There is 1 existing main building, sitting in the north and facing south, with a blue brick exterior wall and a green tile four-slope roof. The middle of the south side of the building protrudes with a polygonal balcony on top. The entrance door on the south side is located on the east side, and there is a square inner porch in front of the door. The whole building is in the shape of a "匚", there is a recessed inner corridor on the east side of the building, and the entrance door is located on the east side. The inner porch and entrance door naturally divide the building into two parts, the front and rear, with a terrace on the second floor.
Chen Bui's apartment was not what it is now, and in "The Last Moments of Chen Bui" written by Hu Hongyou, Chen Bui's guard, there are some descriptions of the situation in the apartment back then, "...No. 508 Nanjing Hunan Road is an old west-facing west-facing western-style house, the road is very open, but relatively quiet, and there is very little traffic. There are no houses on either side of the mansion, and the south wall of the mansion is long, and the walls are full of trees and weeds. The Chen Mansion is not big, and there are two iron gates, which are the mailroom and the guardhouse. There are also several bungalows, which are the secretary's office, the car room, and the warehouse. ......In the mansion is a small western-style building, downstairs is the office and bedroom of the chief writer Jiang Junzhang, the second half is the office of Secretary Jin (Jin Shengwu) with a bedroom, and then there are stairs and toilets, although the bathroom has a porcelain basin, but it is never allowed to take a bath with warm water. There was also a meeting room with a rectangular table, 10 chairs with backrests, and a fireplace in the corner, but it had not been used for many years. The first upstairs is Chen's office, and there is a writing desk facing north and south by the window, and there is a ** computer on the table. There was an electric button by the window, which was used to call the waiter. The second room is a reception room, with a large sofa and a coffee table, and the third room is Chen's bedroom, with a wooden bunk bed against the wall, a bedside table, two old crates and nothing else, and the room looks empty. The lighting of the entire mansion is less than 60 watts, there is not a single gorgeous lighting fixture, and no electric stove is allowed. The floor, the stairs, were mopped once a day, the mansion was not carpeted, and it was never waxed. In front of the house is a lawn, but not a single flower is planted. ”
In 2008, the building was renovated and renovated, and although the exterior structure has remained unchanged, the interior has been completely renovated. The current building of No. 15 Jiangsu Road should be the No. 8 building of the "Yihe Mansion" hotel. It's just that customers who are not staying in the hotel will have what kind of associations they will have when they live here?