Chapter 31 Three Vows to Save the Nation by Aviation

Now people of all colors are shouting all kinds of ways to save the country, as if everyone suddenly became patriotic.In fact, this is not the case. This is the way to save the country, but now it is shouted out. That’s why bankers talk about saving the country by saving, those who sell manuscripts talk about saving the country by literature, those who paint pictures talk about saving the country by art, those who love dancing talk about saving the country by saving the country in entertainment, and, according to the tobacco company, they say that they are smoking Ma Zhanshan. General brand cigarettes have never been a way of saving the country.

All these kinds of national salvation, just as they have been implemented before, will continue to be implemented in the future, and they will never last for five minutes. Only saving the country by aviation[3] is more unique and should be admired. It is difficult to predict the future, because the people who advocate it are probably not pilots themselves.Well, we might as well state a little wish in advance. People who have seen the Shanghai poster at this time last year may remember that Suzhou has a fleet of planes to fight the war?Later, all the others were "lost" in the middle of the journey, except for the one of the foreign martyr [4] who was the leader of the team. It lost two fists to four hands, and was finally shot down by a Japanese plane. His mother was so tired that he flew all the way from America Come here, cry bitterly, and leave with a few wreaths.I heard that there is also a team from Guangzhou, and the ladies embroidered poems on the shirts, presenting the soldiers with a strong look.However, unfortunately, it seems that it has not arrived yet.

Therefore, before the establishment of the Air Defense Force, we should state two wishes-one, to recognize the road; Two, fly faster. There is an even more important layer. When we are going from "non-resistance" to "long-term resistance" to "psychological resistance"[5], we may not be able to fight foreign countries for a while. And suffering from the fact that heroes are useless, wondering if bombs will fall on the unarmed people?So I still have to tremblingly state a wish, which is—three, don't kill the people! February 3rd. 〔1〕This article was originally published on February 5, 1933 in "Shen Yan Free Talk", signed by He Jiaqian.

[2] Ma Zhanshan (1885-1950), a native of Huaide, Jilin, was an officer of the Northeast Army of the Kuomintang.After the September 18th Incident, he served as acting chairman of Heilongjiang Province.When the Japanese invading army invaded Heilongjiang from Liaoning, he led his troops to resist. At that time, the public opinion once called him a "national hero".Shanghai Fuchang Tobacco Company used his name as a brand of cigarettes, and advertised in a newspaper saying: "All our patriotic compatriots in Greater China should unanimously switch to smoking General Ma Zhanshan brand cigarettes." [3] In early 1933, the Kuomintang government decided to organize the Air China National Salvation Aircraft Donation and organized the China Aviation Salvation Congress (later renamed the China Aviation Association), declaring that it would "gather the power of the people of the whole country, assist the government, and strive for the cause of aviation". Airline lottery tickets were issued all over the country to force donations.

[4] Foreign martyrs In February 1932, American pilot B. Short, who was testing the performance of the newly purchased aircraft for the Kuomintang government's aviation agency, flew from Shanghai to Nanjing, and when passing through the sky over Suzhou, he met the Japanese aircraft six. They were shot down and died, and the KMT's news agencies and newspapers used this to publicize.Short's mother came to China in April after hearing the news. [5] During the September 18th Incident, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the Northeast Army to "absolutely not resist" and openly implement the policy of traitorous surrender.After the 128th War, the Declaration of the Second Plenary Session of the Fourth Central Committee of the Kuomintang stated that "the central government has established a long-term determination to resist" and "psychological resistance".