The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-30
The Kuomintang>>>> Hangman for Imperialism
BY WANG MEL

Under it the Wuhan area, in which
Hankow, Wuchang, and Hanyang
are located, is the district that has
suffered the most. Thousands and
tens of thousands of revolutionary
masses have been killed in groups,
one after the other, in and around
the district. All freedom of civil
ians in general, all freedom of res
idence, freedom of movement, of
speech, of publication, of assembly
- all has been destroyed by the
white terror.
Arrests and fortunes
The torture of arrested revo-
lutionary fighters is the most or
binary occurrence. The torture
employed is hideOus. 1t includes
soaring the tongue with red hot
irons; pumping petroleum into
the nose; forcing sharpened ban-
boo sticks into the fingers through
the nail fissures; cutting off the
nose, the ears, the sex organs of
men and the breasts of women.
Whenever the Red Armies threat
en- the white control Of district,
or on days prior to revolutionary
anniversaries, the local Kuomin-
tang authorities adopt the most
savage methods of terroriZation.
They take political prisoners from
Jail, some of them whose prison
terms have already been determ-
ined and partly served, and
others whose terms have long
since expired, and they chop off
the heads of these victims in the
public streets, in the presence of
large crowds guarded by heavily
armed forces. 1t is no longer a
rare occurrence that dozens of
revolutionary fighters are be-
headed or shot to death in a
single day in the Wuhan area,
and their bodies left lying in the
streets for days as measure Of
terrorization.
$40 In One Day
1t is quite common thing to
find 80 revolutionaries executed
within a week in Hankow under
the rule of the Chinese Kuomin-
tang. On certain day in the
winter of 1880, a mass execution of
$40 revolutionary fighters took
place in Hankow. On December
q, 1880, another mass execution of
Is Communists took place in the
same district. Among the Is, Com
rade Chang Tsai-tsen behaved with
heroism. He had been
brutally tortured right after his
arrest. The Kuomintang then tried
to induce him to surrender. But
during his trial Comrade Chang
stood his ground, fiercely defied his
torturers, and demanded an early
of himself.
Mass executions such as the
above mentioned above in the WI
han area also take place in Can
ton, Marking, Shanghai, Hangchow,
Tsinan and other cities. On Janu-
ary II of this year, in Shanghai,
"A Communists, two of them wo-
men, were arrested in Shanghai by
he British imperialist police, turn
ID over to the Chinese authorities,
md on February Z were put to
leath by the Kuomintang militar-
SITS in a manner that only bar
,arians of the Middle Ages used.
first they were forced to dig their
'wn graves, then five of the VIC
inns were buried alive, but the
oldiers refused to proceed with the
work, and the rest were
moved down with machine guns
nd their bodies thrown in on top
# the five. Five of the "a were i,
Dung left-wing writer's. Not a
1ord of this savagery appears in
he foreign or Chinese press in
shanghai, but it is known to all
ecause executions often take place
4 the presence of large crowds of |
militaristS, and foreign |
olice and officials from the for
ign concessions.
On April S, General Han Fu-Chu,
ne of the present props of the
'anking regime, took % Commun-
It prisoners from Tsinan, Shant-
ag, prison, and shot them to death.