Zhu Keli, male, 76 years old.
Investigation location: No. 81, Beiwai Street, Xiongzhou Town.
Survey date: 6 July 2005.
Investigators: Ye Ming, Wu Aihui.
Before the Japanese came, my family of four lived in the northeast of the North Gate Bridge, and I grew up in my uncle's house. My parents were at the South Gate (now the Zhonghua Gate). Before the Japanese came to Liuhe, we went back to Qiaowenzhuang in Ma'an Township and stayed for a few months. We live in a rented house, and we buy our own things to cook and eat, and rice is easier to buy. When we returned, we had to wrap a Japanese flag made of white cloth around our shoulders.
I was 9 years old at the time of the bombing on April 27. Many houses in the city were damaged and some people were killed. The devils probably entered the city five or six days after the bombing, and at that time there were New Fourth Army troops in the countryside and villages. Devils only dare to go to the countryside during the day, and after going to the countryside, devils will catch chickens and other things. This is all brought by the two devils, and the two devils are the most able to bully the common people, especially like to rip off bamboo. Once, there were two devils, one surnamed Xu and the other surnamed Li, who stopped a common man, the first person put the bullet in the pocket of the common people under the pretext of searching his body, and the second excused the ordinary people to have bullets to blackmail. Both of these men are from Simon, and the one surnamed Li turned back after 20 years of transformation. At that time, the Japanese gendarmerie was stationed at the Ximen Confucian Temple, and when the Japanese caught the New Fourth Army, they hacked them to death with knives on the side of Phoenix Mountain, and the Japanese knives were particularly fast. On the Chang'an side, the Japanese stabbed a New Fourth Army to death with a bayonet.
In addition, a small New Fourth Army cried and was taken in plainclothes to be a godson, and later it also turned bad. The chickens eaten by the Japanese are directly sent by the township security chief, and my family sells eggs, and the two devils often come to ask for eggs and don't give money. At that time, the devil also issued a certificate of good citizenship, which was the same size as the current ID card, with two pages, and it was necessary to paste **, and it could only be obtained if you were over 18 years old. At that time, I was not old enough and did not have a certificate of good citizenship, so I could only walk around the city when I entered the city. At that time, the devils and the police were standing together at the gate of the city, and the police were the worst. Chinese must bow when entering and exiting the city gates, otherwise they will be beaten. When the Japanese were in the time, they used reserve tickets, and they also used Kuomintang tickets, and the red ones issued by the Bank of Communications were the best. At that time, my father was sick in the city of Nanjing, and he was afraid of being burned to death by the Japanese, so he took a boat from Baguazhou through Guangming Bridge. The Japanese lived in the west of the city at that time, and the Japanese captured six peasants in Changshan and hacked them to death with knives in Wangjiatian in the city. After liberation, my family was still in the egg business, with six people.
A Chinese city after being bombed by the Japanese army.
*From the Battle of Songhu and Nanjing University in the collection of the Yenching Library of Harvard University, USA
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The Battle of Songhu and the Great University of Nanjing, which are in the collection of the Yenching Library of Harvard University in the United States
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