Chapter 73 victim

One of the reasons Dai Li was reluctant to turn to foreign police in Shanghai was that most arrests were made in the early evening and those arrested were detained until the next day before extradition requests could be lodged.This gave reporters time to investigate the case and publish it in local newspapers beyond Dai Li's control.As a result, the agents working for Zhao Lijun's action team at the Shanghai station (later led by Shen Zui) were ordered to carry out "secret arrests", which were actually political kidnappings.This left the foreign police with no control over the prisoners, whose arrests were completely blocked from the local newspapers.

Dai Li's distaste for media reports was not without reason: they tied his hands and feet by exposing his secret kingdom to broad daylight.One of the most famous examples is the disappearance of the writer Ding Ling on May 14, 1933: that day the police raided her apartment on Kunshan Road and arrested her, her husband Feng Da and one of their relatives in full view. Communist Party friends.This semi-public abduction was protested by Yang Xingfo (also known as Yang Quan), the secretary-general of the Human Rights Defense League, but the answer to the protest was official silence, and Yang himself was killed shortly afterwards.

Another, perhaps more famous, example is the case of Liu Luyin that occurred in 1936.Liu Luyin was believed to belong to Wang Yaqiao, and he came to Shanghai that winter to represent Chen Jitang, Hu Hanmin, and other members of the "Guangdong faction".Liu, like all of Chiang Kai-shek's enemies, knew that he might be on the blacklist, and he chose to live in the French Concession for safety.So an order came from Dai Li to kidnap him at the Shanghai station, take him to Nanjing for a secret interrogation, and then shoot him. The first task is to find Liu's trace.Intoxicated agents learned that one of Liu's aunts, surnamed Hua, lived near Rue Petain, and that Liu spent most nights with her.Shen Zui led his agents into the Studebaker car at the station, and drove towards the French Concession, and suddenly he found Liu Luyin and his woman sitting in a brand new green Ford sedan Come across.The agents immediately took a sharp turn.But the Ford picked up speed, and their old French car couldn't catch up, making the target disappear on the roads of Shanghai.But Shen Zui memorized the license plate number, and led his team to search for it throughout the city.They found the Ford at the gate of the Yangtze Hotel on Sanma Road near Fuzhou Road in the International Concession.Shen Zui surrounded the hotel with men, and when the couple came out in the middle of the night, the agents rushed up and forced Liu and his woman into their Studebaker car.

They fought desperately.The woman surnamed Hua screamed for help, and Liu jumped on the driver in the front seat who was about to drive in the car, and began to wrestle with him.As a result, before the car drove away, a British policeman arrived and arrested them all and took them to the old gate of the municipal police headquarters to lock them up.Of course, the agents of the Secret Service had their own police documents to deal with it, and extradited Liu Luyin to Wuhan in a short time, and charged him with assassinating Yang Yongtai.Yang Yongtai is the leader of a political research group and the chairman of the Hubei Provincial Government.It is generally believed that he was assassinated to death by Cheng Xiechao on the Hankou ferry after attending the reception of the American consul on October 5, 1936.

But because the case was so public, it was difficult for Dai Li to arrange a secret trial and execute Liu first.Therefore, the fate of Liu Luyin was handed over to the Criminal Department of the Wuchang District Court. After a public trial, Liu was sentenced to ten years in prison and deprived of civil rights for five years. Apart from famous cases, the victims of Dai Li's assassination team were mostly unnamed students and workers.Workers were often arrested outside the factory, and the agents did not dare to go in and arrest people for fear of encountering resistance from their comrades.Whenever possible, hijackings were carried out at night so that victims would have more time to extract confessions before their disappearance was discovered.Once in the hands of the Secret Service, the workers and students disappeared, tortured in secret at the hands of torturers, who were generally unaware of the true identity of their prey.