On August 15, 1945, the Emperor of Japan announced his unconditional surrender. On 16 August, presided over by Chen Gongbo, acting chairman of the puppet Kuomintang, an interim meeting of the Wang Puppet Political Committee was held at the "Chairman's Residence" on Yihe Road in Nanjing. In the midst of panic, infighting, and chaos, the meeting decided to dissolve the "Kuomintang" and change the political committee into the Nanjing Provisional Political Affairs Committee, and the Military Committee into the Public Security Committee, as the general organ for handling the affairs of the various ministries of the puppet regime and maintaining local law and order. That night, the "Declaration on the Dissolution of the People" was broadcast, and thus the Wang puppet regime, which had lasted for more than five years, completely collapsed. On the same day, the puppet Manchukuo Emperor Pu Yi read the "Edict of the Puppet Manchukuo Emperor Abdication" with a blank face, and the puppet Manchukuo, which had been living under the wing of the Japanese invaders for 13 years, finally came to an end. * The traitors also entered their end of the Yellow Spring.
Beginning in late September 1945, Chiang Kai-shek appointed the Military Command Bureau to arrest traitors in Nanjing, Shanghai, Beiping, Guangzhou, and other places.
The arrest of traitors is basically a method of entrapment. In Shanghai, on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival on September 20, 1945, Dai Li, director of the Military Command Bureau, sent invitations to hundreds of senior officials and generals of Wang's puppet government, including Zhou Fohai, Miao Bin, and Ding Mocun, director of Wang's puppet headquarters, inviting them to attend the Mid-Autumn Festival moon appreciation dinner. After three rounds of drinking, Dai Li stood up and said: "The eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression has now been won, and many of you have taken up false positions during the War of Resistance against Japan, of course, for various reasons. From today on, as long as you can make meritorious service and atone for your sins, it is a ...... of leniency and no blame for the pastDai Li's words were interrupted by enthusiastic applause. After a pause, he continued with a drink: "To solve the problem of traitors, politics is more important than law. We must believe in Chairman Chiang and believe in **.
On September 23, more than 100 action teams under Dai Li's command delivered beautifully printed invitations to the traitors' homes. These traitors still echoed in their ears the promise made by Dai Li under the Mid-Autumn Festival moon three days ago, and they never dreamed that they would become prisoners today, so they followed them all unguarded to the Yuyuan Road Mansion of the Military Control Bureau. When they entered the compound, they saw that the military and police spies were standing all around, and the puppet personnel who arrived first were dejected and panicked. None of the more than 100 traitors who were pre-arrested that night slipped through the net. The next night, more than 100 people were arrested, and together with the first batch of captured traitors, all of them were imprisoned in the prison of No. 76 of the former Wang Puppet ** headquarters.
In Beiping, on 5 December, Dai Li, in the name of Li Zongren's command post of the North Parallel Battalion, held a grand banquet at No. 1 Bei Bing Ma Si in Beicheng, Beiping, and sent invitations to more than 50 big traitors in Peiping who had been specially appointed, Jane had been appointed to the post, and had been recommended for independent and pseudo-posts, and invited them to attend the banquet. On this day, the specially appointed traitors who were invited by Dai Li to attend the banquet on time were: Wang Kemin, who successively served as the first and fourth chairman of the puppet North China Political Affairs Committee; Wang Yintai, the fifth chairman; Qi Xieyuan, member of the Standing Committee of the puppet North China Political Committee, supervised by the North China Public Security Administration, and commander-in-chief of the North China Pacification Administration; Du Xijun, supervised by the General Administration of Pacification; Zhou Zuoren and Wang Mo, supervised by the General Administration of Education; Wang Shijing, member of the Standing Committee of the puppet North China Political Committee, and supervised by the General Administration of Economy and the General Administration of Finance; Chen Zengwei, supervised by the General Administration of Agriculture; Tang Yangdu, supervised by the General Administration of Public Works; and member of the puppet North China Political Committee; Liu Yushu, mayor of Beiping, and Huang Nanpeng, commander of the military police in Beiping. When the traitors received the invitation, they came to No. 1 Dongchengbei Terracotta Division with doubts and uneasiness, and when they entered the courtyard, they saw a large number of military and police officers, heavily guarded, and they knew that there was no good banquet. Although the banquet is extremely sumptuous, the traitors are already chewing wax and it is difficult to swallow. After everyone had finished eating in a hurry, Dai Li took out the list approved by Chiang Kai-shek and announced to the traitors at the banquet that according to the "Regulations on the Punishment of Traitors" formulated by the Kuomintang during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, all traitors who had served as special posts, those who had served as Jane posts, and those who had been recommended for independent and false posts must be punished as a matter of course according to their duties. Therefore, "From now on you are all ** human prisoners, and we are ready to send you all to prison." This is an order and I cannot make any claims. "Wang Yitang, the second chairman of the puppet North China Political Committee, was admitted to ** hospital for illness before Dai Li's banquet, and was detained by the military commander from ** hospital to the detention center.
The number one traitor, Wang Jingwei, died of illness in Japan on 10 November 1944, and his wife Chen Bijun and Chu Minyi, the puppet governor of Guangdong, were ensnared in Guangzhou. After Wang Jingwei's death, Chen Bijun returned to Guangzhou with a group of cronies. After Japan announced its unconditional surrender, Chen Bijun went to Chu Minyi to discuss countermeasures, and decided to offer courtesy to the old Chiang Kai-shek, and asked Chiang Kai-shek to look at the unanimous feelings of the past, open the net, and redeem the merits. Therefore, in the name of Chu Minyi, two flattering telegrams were sent to Chiang Kai-shek one after another. Soon after, Zheng Jiemin, director of the Guangzhou Station of the Military Command Bureau, came to the Chu Mansion with a forged warrant from Chiang Kai-shek inviting Chu Minyi and Chen Bijun to Chongqing to discuss the "aftermath matters," claiming that he had been ordered by Dai Li to welcome Chen Bijun and Chu Minyi to Chongqing. On the morning of October 14, 1945, Zheng Jiemin informed Chu Minyi that the special plane had arrived, and asked Chen Bijun and Chu Minyi to wait at the gate of the original province at 3 p.m., and a car would pick them up. At 3 o'clock, Zheng Jiemin arrived on time with a car and a group of military commanders. After he got off the bus, he announced that each car could only seat two people, and the rest of the seats would be taken by the military commander's escort. As soon as the convoy left the provincial capital, Chen Bijun found that the car was not heading in the direction of Baiyun Airport, and she asked: "Is this going to **?" Zheng Jiemin explained with a smile: "Chongqing is a seaplane, we are going to the Pearl River, and we are on the boat to transition to the plane. The car soon came to the Pearl River, and there was already a motorboat waiting for it. After Zheng Jiemin sent Chen Bijun and Chu Minyi on the boat, he said that he could not accompany them on official business, so he handed them over to the lieutenant colonel commissioner surnamed He, and then left by car. As soon as the steamboat left the shore, the commissioner, surnamed He, took out a piece of paper from his pocket and said that there was a call from Chongqing, that the chairman of the committee had already gone to Xi'an, and that he could not return to Chongqing within ten days. At this time, the two of them knew that they had fallen into Dai Li's trap. Chen and Chu were imprisoned in a two-story building by the Pearl River for half a month before being escorted to Nanjing.
Chen Gongbo was extradited to Japan after his exile. When the operation to arrest the traitors was about to begin, Chongqing's "Xinmin Bao" carried a piece of news from Japan's "Asahi Shimbun": "Peiping 29 Mar -- According to a special correspondent from Guanghua, Chen Gongbo, former chairman of the Nanjing Nationalists, committed suicide on 26 July, was seriously injured and died on 29 July. However, Dai Li soon found out the truth and immediately negotiated with the Japanese side: "Chen Gongbo and several others seem to have fled to Japan. It turned out that after returning to Nanjing after the surrender of Zhijiang, Takeo Imai, deputy chief of the general staff of the Japanese dispatch army, told Chen Gongbo that he had not been able to get "a firm promise of leniency" on the issue of the handling of the puppet ** dignitaries. Chen Gongbo was terrified, wept and begged to "travel" to Japan for the time being. In the early morning of 25 August, Chen Gongbo, escorted by Japanese soldier Lieutenant Tetsuo Ogawa, fled Nanjing and flew to Japan on a WG plane of the China Airlines Company of Japan, including his wife Li Lizhuang, female secretary Mo Guokang, secretary general of the puppet Executive Yuan, He Bingxian, manager and chief supervisor of the puppet Military Commission, Lin Baisheng, puppet governor of Anhui Province, and Chen Junhui, puppet minister of industry. In order to hide people's eyes, Chen Gongbo and his entourage changed their names and became incognito, using the false name of "Higashiyama Shop and Tourist," and hid in a temple called Kinkakuji Temple in Kyoto in a vain attempt to evade the people's sanctions. On September 9, He Yingqin formally submitted the "Memorandum" to Okamura Ningji, piercing the smokescreen of Chen Gongbo's fake suicide and demanding that Japan arrest Chen Gongbo and others as soon as possible. On the 20th, He Yingqin again proposed the "Memorandum" on the extradition of Chen Gongbo. Under heavy pressure, Japan was forced to hand over Chen Gongbo and a group of traitors. On October 3, Chen Gongbo and others were escorted back to Nanjing.
The arrest of Zhou Fohai was quite troublesome. In the later period of his service for the Japanese, Zhou Fohai also sold his life for Chiang Kai-shek. Through a secret radio station set up in the Shanghai office of the puppet Ministry of Finance, he continued to transmit important information to Chongqing, and he also bailed out Li Shiqun for Chongqing. How to deal with Zhou Fohai made Chiang Kai-shek in a dilemma. Dai Li offered a strategy: it is better to put him under house arrest first, and with the cold and warm weather, he has his own way of advancing and retreating. As a result, Zhou Fohai accepted Dai Li's "advice" and sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, resigning from the post of commander-in-chief of the Shanghai Action Corps, and handing over all the power of the police, the army, and the belongings of the ** Reserve Bank to Dai Li. On 30 September, Zhou Fohai, Luo Junqiang and Ding Mo, puppet Shanghai garrison commanders, Yang Yuhua, general manager of Zhou Fohai's brother-in-law ** Trust Company, and Ma Jiliang, director of the General Affairs Department of the Reserve Bank, were accompanied by Dai Li to Chongqing, where they were confined to the "White Mansion" on the banks of the Jialing River. After Zhou Fohai and others were sent to Chongqing for protection, the demand for the punishment of this big traitor became higher and higher throughout the country, and many people within the Kuomintang ruling group also added fuel to the fire and beat Dai Li. In March 1946, Dai Li died in the destruction of the Daishan machine in Nanjing. Zhou Fohai lamented: "When Yu Nong dies, so do I." In September, Zhou Fohai and others were sent to Nanjing.
Liang Hongzhi, the puppet director of supervision, was wanted and arrested. After Japan's unconditional surrender, Liang Hongzhi was listed as a wanted object, and he went into hiding in Suzhou. Unfortunately, his newly married aunt was discovered when she went to Shanghai to take care of private affairs, and the person followed and found Liang Hongzhi's private house in Suzhou hidden in the alleys, and reported it to the people. So, Liang Hongzhi was in Suzhou**.
Miao Bin was first happy and then sad, becoming the first traitor to be tried and the first to be executed after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. One by one, the big traitors were arrested, and Miao Bin, who was the vice president of the puppet Legislative Yuan, was not only safe and sound, but also received a bonus of 80,000 yuan from Dai Li. But the good times did not last long, and one day in early February 1946, several big men with box cannons on their waists broke into the door and handcuffed him without saying a word. Miao Bin said goodbye to his family calmly: "You just have to rest assured, I won't die." Two months later, he was secretly shot in prison. Why is Miao Bin the latest among the big traitors, and he is in a hurry to sentence once he is caught?It turned out that Miao Bin did something that alarmed the United States**. At the beginning of 1945, Japan's defeat was decided, and Prime Minister Koiso Kuniaki was anxious to make peace with Chongqing, so he decided to do the work of "seeking peace" through Miao Bin. Chiang Kai-shek's military command organization wanted to make a big contribution in a situation of victory without a fight, so it agreed to allow Miao Bin to go to Tokyo for activities. Miao Bin spent 40 days in Japan and returned in vain. After Japan's surrender, the US military found documents related to this event in the archives of the Japanese Cabinet. MacArthur then asked Chiang Kai-shek why he had made peace with Japan separately from the United StatesChiang Kai-shek replied by telegram saying that there was absolutely no such thing. Chiang Kai-shek also relied on the United States to fight the civil war, and in order to avoid the revelation of the matter, he ordered the immediate arrest of Miao Bin and his speedy execution.
In addition, the puppet Minister of Industry and Commerce Mei Siping, the puppet Nanjing Mayor Zhou Xuechang, and the puppet Minister of Education Li Sheng.
5. Puppet Navy Minister Ling Xiao, puppet Minister of Social Welfare Peng Nian, puppet Propaganda Deputy Minister Guo Xiufeng and other 23 big traitors in Nanjing**. Puppet Shandong Governors Ma Liang and Yang Yuxun, puppet Shanxi Governors Su Tiren, Feng Sizhi, Wang Lang, and great spy Yoshiko Kawashima are also respectively **.
On 23 November 1945, the Kuomintang officially promulgated the "Regulations on the Handling of Cases of Traitors," and the end of 1946 was the cut-off date for reporting traitors. In the winter of that year, the Kuomintang ** carried out the trial and closure of the traitor case, which was basically completed by the end of 1947. On January 5, 1948, Xie Guansheng, Minister of Justice and Administration, announced that according to the cases of traitors reported by various provinces and municipalities, 30,828 people were prosecuted, 20,718 people were exempted from prosecution, and 13,323 others were prosecuted. Of the 25,155 cases that were concluded, 14,932 people were sentenced, including 369 sentenced to death, 979 sentenced to life imprisonment, 13,570 sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment, and 14 fined. More than 50 people, including the traitors Chen Gongbo, Chu Minyi, Wang Yitang, Qi Xieyuan, Yin Rugeng, Mei Siping, Lin Bosheng, Liang Hongzhi, Ding Mocun, and the great spy Yoshiko Kawashima, were sentenced to death; Nearly 100 people, including Chen Bijun (who died of illness in Shanghai Prison in 1959) and Luo Junqiang (who died of illness in Shanghai Prison in 1970), were sentenced to life imprisonment. Zhou Fohai was first sentenced to death, then pardoned by Chiang Kai-shek and sentenced to life imprisonment, and in February 1948, he suffered a heart attack and died in the cell of Laohuqiao Prison. In addition, Wang Kemin died of illness in prison shortly after he was detained, and Chen Qun, Wang's puppet minister of the interior, and Gao Guanwu, the wanted governor of Jiangsu Province, committed suicide.
On August 8, 1945, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan. On 9 August, the million-strong Soviet Red Army launched an attack on the Japanese Kwantung Army entrenched in northeast China, and the Kwantung Army collapsed in an instant. On August 19, the puppet Manchukuo emperors Pu Yi and Pu Jie, two brothers-in-law, three nephews, a doctor, and his attendant Da Li set off from Tonghua to Shenyang on two planes, where they planned to change to a large plane and flee to Japan. At 11 a.m., Pu Yi's plane arrived at Shenyang Airport first, and waited for another plane in the airport lounge. After waiting for a while, there was a sudden deafening sound of airplane motors. It turned out that it was the Soviet plane that landed. A group of Soviet soldiers armed with submachine guns stepped off the plane and immediately disarmed the Japanese troops at the airfield, and Pu Yi was captured. The next day, he was taken by Soviet planes to a prison in the Soviet Far East. In addition, more than 60 puppet Manchurian political dignitaries, including Zhang Jinghui, minister of state affairs of the puppet Manchurians, Zang Shiyi, chairman of the puppet Manchurian Senate and commander-in-chief of the Xingya National Mobilization Conference, Ji Xing, commander of the puppet Manchurian Second Military Region, chief military attache of the puppet emperor's chamberlain, and minister of the puppet Shangshu Prefecture, Ganjur Zabu, commander of the Ninth Military Region of the puppet Manchukuo, Xu Liangru, procurator of the Supreme Procuratorate of the puppet Manchuria, and Xing Tukang, minister of the puppet Manchurian military department, were arrested by the Soviet army. In July 1950, the Soviet army transferred these puppet Manchukuo war criminals and more than 1,000 Japanese war criminals to China's Fushun War Criminals Management Center.
After Japan's surrender, Li Shouxin, vice chairman of the puppet Mongolian Alliance's autonomy, was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as commander-in-chief of the Tenth Route Army and commander of the Northeast People's Self-Defense Army. After the outbreak of the civil war, he was ordered to recruit the old troops in the eastern part of Inner Mongolia, organize arms, and cooperate with the Kuomintang army to attack the liberated areas. In 1947, his subordinates were annihilated by the People's Liberation Army in Kailu, and he fled to Beiping and later to Taiwan.
In 1949, Li Shouxin returned to Inner Mongolia and participated in the organization of "Mongolian Autonomy**" activities in Alxa Banner. After the peaceful liberation of Alxa Banner, he fled to the Mongolian People's Republic, where he was arrested and extradited to China for trial in 1950.
Four. He was arrested by our party before and after liberation
Although some traitors escaped the trial of the Kuomintang, they were later captured by our party. Zhang Lanfeng was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek in August 1946 as the deputy commander-in-chief of the "purging and suppression" in eastern Shaanxi, and on 16 January 1947, he was captured by the Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Shandong, Shanxi, Shandong, Shandong, Shanxi, Shandong, Shandong, Shanxi, Shanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Shanxi, Shandong, Shandong, Shanxi, Shanxi, Shandong, Shandong, Shandong, Shanxi, Shandong, Shandong, Shanxi, Shanxi, Shandong Sun Dianying surrendered in 1947 during the Battle of Northern Henan. Wen Shizhen, the puppet mayor of Tianjin, was sentenced to death by the people after liberation. When the Soviet army attacked Changchun in 1945, Zhang Huanxiang, Minister of Justice of the puppet Manchurians and Senate of the Senate, sneaked back to his hometown of Fushun, where he was not captured, and later settled in Shenyang. In September 1951, during the "suppression of rebellion", due to the report of the masses, he was taken to his residence in Dadong District, Shenyang** and transferred to the war criminals management center in Harbin. After being arrested by the Kuomintang, Zhao Xinbo, who successively served as president of the puppet Manchukuo National Assembly and adviser to the puppet North China Political Affairs Committee, bribed the judicial department and returned home in the name of "medical parole," thus going unpunished. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, on July 20, 1951, the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau summoned him in accordance with the law.
A traitor who was shot after the trial.
It is very regrettable that there are also some big traitors who have escaped justice. Cao Rulin, who was the top adviser of the puppet North China Provisional ** and a member of the advisory committee of the puppet North China Political Affairs Committee, fled to Taiwan in 1949, and later went to Japan and the United States, and died in Detroit. In 1949, when the Chinese People's Liberation Army drank the Shenzhen River, Ren felt that Hong Kong was also difficult to gain a foothold, so he flew his family to Canada to settle down, and died in Canada in 1980. Hu Lancheng, a pseudo-"literary courage", fled to Zhejiang, where he became a Chinese language teacher in Wenzhou High School and hid for three years. At the turn of the spring and summer of 1949, when Wenzhou was liberated, he fled to Shanghai, met the puppet army commander Zou Pingfan, fled to Hong Kong together, and smuggled to Japan half a year later. He died in Tokyo on July 25, 1982. He was the only literati traitor in Wang's puppet regime who slipped through the net.
Whether they live or die, the heinous crimes committed by these traitors and thieves during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression are unforgivable, and they will forever be nailed to the pillar of shame in history.
*: "Decision and Information" 2015 Issue 06, author Wu Zhirong.