Use cartoons and texts to expose the truth of the reactionaries' creation of the "Litchi Bay Massacre"
One of the lifelong friendships with Lai Shaoqi's classmates and comrades-in-arms
Chen Jiaji
At the end of 1935, the national anti-Japanese salvation movement was constantly rising, and under the impetus of the 129 Movement, Many progressive young student organizations were established in Guangzhou, and many anti-Japanese and anti-Chiang Kai-shek demonstrations were launched. On January 12, 1936, the students of Shimei and other schools shouted slogans such as "Down with Japanese imperialism", petitioned the Kuomintang authorities, marched and demonstrated, and when passing through Shamian, the imperialists panicked and closed the iron gate at the head of the bridge and banned it from entering Shamian. When the procession reached Lychee Bay, the Kuomintang reactionaries bribed local hooligans and beat the female students into the water under the small banner of the "National Salvation Hoe Traitor Group."
The next day, on January 13, 1936, the students of Guangzhou No. 2 Girls' Secondary School spontaneously held a parade, and students from Guomin University, Sun Yat-sen University, Yueshan Middle School and other universities and middle schools joined the parade. Due to poor preparations, they were attacked by the military police and hooligans arranged in advance by the warlord Chen Jitang, and more than 100 students were killed and injured on the spot, and this incident was called the "Liwan Massacre". The Kuomintang authorities also issued a notice of killing 5 "prisoners" as a threat, and hinted that if the demonstrations were to be further demonstrated, they would be suppressed, and they also began to arrest students.
Xiao Yin (then named Zheng Wensheng), who had just arrived in Guangzhou from his hometown of Longchuan in early January of that year, immediately joined Lai Shaoqi and Wu Youheng and others in these struggles.
After Xiao Yin's death, Lai Shaoqi described in detail in his article "My Revolutionary Comrade-in-Arms Xiao Yin" (included in the "Centennial Xiao Yin Commemorative Anthology") in which he and Xiao Yin Wu Youheng worked closely together in battle to expose the ugly face of the enemy who created the Lychee Bay Massacre with pen and ink as a knife and gun.
This action of the revolutionary students attracted the attention of the Kuomintang reactionaries. The next day, we joined the parade with our classmates. At this time, the agents of the Kuomintang reactionaries under the banner of "Anti-Japanese Salvation Hoe Traitor Group" mixed into the parade of our students. When the procession reached Lychee Bay, the agents captured a group of classmates and sent them to Lychee Bay Prison, where they bundled the arrested students into sacks and threw them into White Swan Pond to drown. A few days later, the reactionaries posted a notice in front of the Finance Office and killed 6 people. This is the "one·one three" Lychee Bay massacre. Later, the reactionaries arrested students wearing long shirts when they saw them. Despite the frenzied repression of the reactionaries, Xiao Yin, me, and Wu Youheng lived at CUHK and continued to participate in the revolutionary student movement.
At that time, a memorial service was held at Sun Yat-sen University to mourn Feng Daoxian and several other middle school students who were killed by warlords and reactionaries in the "One Hundred and Thirteen" Lychee Bay massacre. Xiao Yin and Wu Youheng, I attended the memorial service. I made a cartoon called "So Anti-Japanese And Rescue Hoe Traitor Group", which was written by Xiao Yin and Wu Youheng to expose the ugly face of the enemy in creating the Lychee Bay massacre.
Because Xiao Yin and Lai Shaoqi actively participated in the students' revolutionary activities, they were soon blacklisted by the reactionaries, and the two were forced to flee to Shanghai and live an unforgettable life of sharing weal and woe together.
Lai Shaoqi's early woodcut work "Hungry"